Russian drone kills woman and two 3-year-old children in Hlevakha
A Russian drone strike on Kyiv Oblast on the evening of Sept. 19 killed a 39-year-old woman and two 3-year-old children — a boy and a girl — in the village of Hlevakha in Fastiv Raion. The Kyiv Oblast Prosecutor’s Office reported details of the attack on Facebook on Sept. 20.
On September 19, a Russian drone strike in Kyiv Oblast killed a 39-year-old woman and two 3-year-old children in the village of Hlevakha. The Kyiv Oblast Prosecutor's Office detailed the incident on Facebook the following day. The woman had taken the children inside to put them to bed when an explosion occurred, killing them instantly.
They were identified as the boy's mother and his two siblings. The attack damaged the roof and floors of a two-story building, sparking a fire that was later extinguished. Emergency services are still investigating the strike and determining the type of drone used. The Fastiv District Prosecutor's Office has launched a war crimes investigation.
Kyiv Oblast's Military Administration chief, Tymur Tkachenko, first reported the tragedy on Telegram, stating it was a "terrible tragedy in Fastiv Raion." The tragedy occurred amid a series of Russian drone attacks on Kyiv Oblast, with Tkachenko reporting nearly continuous Russian drone strikes for nearly 24 hours on September 19.
The incident came after Russian forces attacked civilian facilities, including warehouses of Suziria Group, a Ukrainian pet products manufacturer, across Obukhiv, Vyshhorod, Boryspil, and Bucha districts.
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