A woman and two girls were victims of Russian bombs in the Ukrainian region of Sumy this August 4 and another person died in Mikoláiv, while drone attacks from kyiv left one dead in Bryansk, another in Belgorod and five more around Moscow, in a new raid against facilities of the online retailer Wildberries. As the Kremlin intensifies the offensive in the Black Sea, Ukraine denounces war crimes.

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At least 11 people lost their lives and dozens were injured, after a day of intense attacks with drones and guided bombs between Russia and Ukraine that reached some eight cities on both sides of the common border.

An elderly woman and two girls were killed in the Ukrainian region of Sumy when the residential building they were in was hit by guided bombs, according to the head of the regional administration, Oleh Hirhorov.

"Two girls and an elderly woman were killed in the Russian bombings with guided bombs that hit Sumy overnight. The girls were five and ten years old. Their bodies were recovered from the rubble of their house," the official said.

At least six guided bombs were used against infrastructure in the area, hitting residential and non-residential buildings.

The Russian state agency TASS cited the Ministry of Defense as saying that the target of the bombings in Sumy was a logistics center in the town of Buryn.

Another official agency, RIA, assured that Russian troops took control of the village of Baksheivka, in the northeastern region of Kharkiv.

Neither the TASS nor the RIA reports could be independently verified by international media.

Ukraine carried out drone attacks that left at least seven dead, many of them civilians, in three Russian cities.

The online retailer Wildberries was once again the target of Ukrainian offensives, with raids on a warehouse in Saint Petersburg, another in the Tver region and a logistics center in Chekhov, on the outskirts of the Russian capital, where according to local governor Andrei Vorobyov, five people died and another ten were injured, seven of them seriously.

There are already a dozen logistics centers or warehouses of the so-called “Russian Amazon” (a pillar of the consumer economy) that have been subject to Ukrainian attacks, in what the company's founder and executive director Tatyana Kim described as "acts of terrorism."

The impact of a Ukrainian drone sparked a fire at a distribution center of Russian food retailer Lenta in the Leningrad region, near St. Petersburg, injuring one person.

Two Russian civilians died in border regions, both hit by Ukrainian drones that hit the cars in which they were traveling, a woman in Belgorod and a man in Bryansk.

The Ministry of Defense claimed that it had managed to shoot down 320 Ukrainian drones in 19 Russian regions.

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Tension grows in the Black Sea

Several Ukrainian ports were the scene of violence. According to the RIA agency, the Russian military attacked at least seven vessels, as well as the port infrastructure itself, in an effort to block Ukraine's access to the Black Sea.

The Ministry of Defense assured that an automotive parts factory and a port terminal where Ukrainian troops repaired military vehicles and stored ammunition, fuel and lubricants, was hit in the port of Chornomrosk, in the southern region of Odessa.

Bulk vessels supposedly used for military purposes, according to the Russian version, were also attacked in the ports of Mikoláiv and Yuzni, while two other similar ships loaded with weapons and supplies were targeted by Russian fire while moving on the high seas.

In Mikolaiv, one person was reported dead as a result of the Russian offensives.

As military activity in the Black Sea intensifies, so does concern about the safety of commercial vessels transiting its waters.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry expressed its alarm that the fire has reached civilian ships, "despite all our warnings", this after a drone attack near the Russian port of Novorossiysk caused damage to a Turkish-owned vessel and injured three of its crew.

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“Safaris” with drones: Ukraine denounces war crime

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of carrying out a hunt for civilians in Ukraine, using as evidence a video showing a Russian drone chasing a fruit seller from a Kherson market and detonating next to him when it was able to get within close range.

For his part, Foreign Minister Andrei Sibiga assured that the recording, released by the Ukrainian police and which according to kyiv took place on August 4, constitutes evidence of a war crime.

In the video, the man is seen moving around the van in which he was selling fruits and vegetables to get to safety, while the unmanned device moved around him. Finally, when the victim is within close range, the drone detonates.

The 50-year-old shopkeeper survived the attack, but was injured by shrapnel. Sibiga assured that it was a “sadistic” attack, while Zelensky referred to it as an example of the “drone safari” that the Russians are carrying out against civilians in Kherson.”

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“This barbaric Russian war crime in Kherson demands condemnation and international justice, but thousands of similar crimes never come to light,” Sibiga said on Telegram, claiming the practice was part of a “deliberate Russian campaign to intimidate civilians.”

"The man in the video shows no signs of being a fighter; he is simply working in the market. However, for the army of the aggressor country, he remains a target," the Ukrainian police said in a statement.

"The world must see it. It must see all the evidence that Russia has gone crazy and that its soldiers enjoy killing and mistreating civilians," Zelensky said in a post on X.

The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine documented 1,396 civilian deaths and 7,978 injuries in the first six months of 2026, a 37% increase over the same period in 2025 and more than double what was reported in 2024.

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With Reuters, EFE and AP

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