Russian strikes on Ukraine kill boy in Kharkiv, hit port facilities in south.

New airstrikes by Russia on Ukraine early on Friday morning resulted in the death of a 10-year-old kid in Kharkiv in the northeast and damage to grain and port facilities in the Odesa area in the south, according to Ukrainian officials.

According to the regional governor Oleh Synehubov, the kid died after Russia launched two Iskander ballistic missiles against the second-largest city in Ukraine. He said 23 people, including an 11-month-old child, were hurt.

Oleh Bychko, the boy’s father, told Reuters that he had been able to rescue his wife and younger kid from the wreckage following the attack. After learning that his 10-year-old son Tymofiy had died, Bychko stood there bloodied from scratches and speechless.

Much of a residential structure was damaged by the missile assault, and rescuers were forced to labor among the wood, metal, and brick ruins.

Following a Russian missile assault on a hamlet in northern Ukraine on Thursday, where scores of people, according to Ukrainian officials, were murdered at a gathering to remember a deceased Ukrainian soldier, the attacks occurred.

One of the worst assaults on people since Russia’s invasion in February 2022 was the one on Hroza.

According to a statement from the air force, in the most recent strikes overnight, Ukrainian air defenses downed 25 of 33 Russian drones fired from the Crimean peninsula that Russia has occupied.

DAMAGED GRAIN SILO

According to the air force’s statement on the Telegram messaging app, the drone attacks targeted the areas of Odesa and Mykolaiv in the south, Dnipropetrovsk in the southeast, Cherkasy and Zhytomyr in the center, and Kharkiv in the northeast.

Oleh Kiper, the regional governor, claimed that a drone strike in the Izmail district of the Odesa area damaged a grain silo. At the scene, nine vehicles caught fire but were swiftly put out.

According to Kiper, the Odesa air warning lasted three and a half hours. “The enemy once more targeted the Izmail district’s border and port infrastructure.”

Following the drone assaults, the Ukrainian military said that operations at the international ferry checkpoint “Orlivka” on the border with Romania had been discontinued, and traffic had been diverted.

Since Moscow abandoned a grain agreement in July that had guaranteed secure Ukrainian supplies over the Black Sea to help relieve a worldwide food crisis, Russia has increased attacks on Ukraine’s southern regions, which are home to the Ukrainian Black Sea and river ports.

Ukraine, a significant producer and exporter of grain worldwide, claims the assaults are meant to stop it from sending its grain to other countries.

To try to drive out the Russian soldiers, Kyiv launched a counteroffensive in the south and east, but in the previous four months, it had only had sporadic success.