Overnight Russian missile and drone attacks across Ukraine kill two people and injure 19.
A woman walks past a bank damaged during an overnight Ukrainian drone attack in Belgorod, Russia, on August 9, 2026 [Reuters]
By Al Jazeera Staff, AFP and Reuters
At least seven people have been killed and four wounded in Ukrainian missile and drone attacks on Russia.
Acting Belgorod Governor Alexander Shuvaev said at least six people were killed on Monday in the region and four were wounded, including a 14-year-old, in a Ukrainian attack on the village of Koloskovo in the Valuysky district near the Ukrainian border.
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In a message on the state-backed MAX platform, Shuvaev added that a structure was “burned” and a vehicle damaged in the attack.
Koloskovo is about 15km (10 miles) from Ukraine’s northeastern border.
In a separate Ukrainian drone attack, a woman was killed in Russia’s southern region of Astrakhan, its governor said.
The attack hit an industrial facility, he added, without giving details.
At the same time, Russian forces launched missile and drone attacks across Ukraine, killing at least four people and wounding 19.
At least two people were killed and four injured in a Russian attack on the southeastern region of Zaporizhia.
At least two people were killed and one person was wounded in Russian shelling on Sumy in northeastern Ukraine, emergency services said.
At least five people were injured in a Russian attack on central Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region while four were injured after two Russian guided-bomb attacks hit Izyum in the northeastern region of Kharkiv.
