Russia targeted the village of Svesa in Sumy Oblast with drones on Aug. 2, killing a 12-year-old boy.
The attack struck at around 2:30 p.m. local time, Governor Oleh Hryhorov reported. A 12-year-old boy near the attack site died of his injuries before medics could arrive.
Another boy, age 13, was hospitalized with shrapnel wounds.
"Unspeakable pain. Sincere condolences to the family. No words can lessen this loss," Hryhorov wrote on Telegram.
The border villages in Ukraine's northeasternSumy Oblast are subject to daily attacks from Russia. The relentless strikes have triggered mandatory evacuations in hundreds of communities.
Moscow has aimed to open a new front in Sumy Oblast and succeeded in capturing several border villages in June. Ukrainian forces have thus far blocked further Russian attempts to push deeper into the region.
Anthropic cuts off OpenAI’s access to its Claude models