On the night of August 8, Russian forces launched a combined attack on Ukraine with six missiles and 151 drones, killing a grandfather, grandmother, and their three-year-old grandson in the village of Puhivka.
Three people, including a three-year-old boy, were killed in the village of Puhivka in the Kyiv region, and one person in Kyiv, during the night attacks on August 8, 2026. Russian forces launched six ballistic missiles and 151 drones of various types at Ukrainian territory, marking the second major attack on the region within a week.
Ukraine's air defense managed to shoot down 135 drones, according to the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as reported by Meduza. There was no official information about the fate of the ballistic missiles.
In the village of Puhivka in the Brovary district, a private house burned down, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (DSNS). The attack killed a grandfather, grandmother, and their three-year-old grandson. Four people were hospitalized: the child's parents, his 15-year-old brother, and a neighbor who came to help the family and was wounded during a secondary strike. All hospitalized individuals suffered thermal burns and shrapnel injuries. In the same village, a fire broke out in a warehouse on the premises of an industrial enterprise.
Ballistic missiles struck civilian infrastructure in two districts of Kyiv. In the Holosiivskyi district, garages and a non-residential building caught fire, while in the Obolonskyi district, a fire broke out on the premises of an enterprise. Four people were injured, three of whom were taken to the hospital.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky strongly condemned the attack, emphasizing that the target was an ordinary residential house. "The Russians could not have failed to know that this was an ordinary residential home," Zelensky wrote on his Telegram channel. In his statement, he stressed the need for increased international pressure on Moscow.
"Europe, America, and Ukraine have long wanted to stop this Russian war. Only Putin does not want it and clings with all his might to his ballistic missiles and drones to continue fighting. Greater pressure is needed. New sanctions that will make the production of these ballistic missiles impossible. And we definitely need more protection for our people," Zelensky said.
He specifically appealed to allies for the delivery of anti-missile systems, mentioning missiles for Patriot, SAMP/T, NASAMS, and HAWK systems, as well as F-16 fighter jets. "All of this works and helps protect lives when it is here, in Ukraine, rather than somewhere in warehouses, thousands of kilometers away from Russian attacks on life," he added.
This is the second major Russian attack on Kyiv and the Kyiv region in just one week. The previous mass strike occurred on August 5, 2026, when marketplaces and logistics centers were hit, killing 17 people. In addition to the Kyiv region, the Donetsk, Kharkiv, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, and Poltava regions also came under Russian shelling on the night of August 8.
