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Four killed in Russian strike on Ukraine

A private house on fire following a Russian drone attack in Chernihiv region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 9, 2026. [AFP]

 A Russian drone strike on the Ukrainian city of Bogodukhiv killed three children and their father, an official said on Wednesday.

Two one-year-old boys and a two-year-old girl died as a result of an enemy strike on a "private residential house" in the eastern city that sits close to Russia's border, the regional prosecutor's office said on Wednesday.

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