Russian strikes across Ukraine killed seven people on February 3
Russian military shelling on February 3, 2026, killed seven civilians across the Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, and Donetsk regions. More than three dozen others sustained injuries, including in the Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Kyiv, and Sumy regions, the National Police reported.
Debris fell onto a sofa inside a room of a residential house shelled by the Russian Federation in the Zaporizhzhia OblastThe victims of the Russian strikes on February 3 include:
- A 40-year-old man from the Sumy Oblast;
- An 18-year-old boy and girl from Zaporizhzhia, killed when a Russian drone struck near them;
- A 58-year-old man from Preobrazhenka;
- A woman and a man from the Vasylkivka “hromada,” a local government area that includes one or more nearby settlements, whose bodies were recovered from the rubble of houses targeted by Russian drones;
- One person in Dobropillia, where Russia struck a residential house with a guided aerial bomb (KAB).
Beyond the fatalities, dozens of people sustained injuries, with the highest concentration in the Kharkiv Oblast. Thirteen civilians were wounded in Kharkiv and its border settlements, many of whom were elderly men, women, and children.
A hole in the wall of a building in Kherson shelled by Russian forces, with the street visible through the openingAt least 11 people were injured in the Zaporizhzhia region. Among the wounded are two 12-year-old boys and a 16-year-old girl from the regional center.
In the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, where three districts were targeted by Russian attacks, a total of five people sustained injuries. These include two neighbors of the deceased in the Vasylkivka hromada and two elderly individuals in Troitske.
High-rise apartment buildings in the Donetsk region damaged by Russian strikes, including one where an entire section has collapsedIn the Sumy Oblast, three people were injured as a result of Russian strikes, though police have not released details regarding their identities.
In the Kyiv region, which was under Russian attack on the night of February 3, three people were injured. Another resident of Kherson was wounded the previous day as Russian forces targeted the city and region with artillery, mortars, and drones.
Police also learned of two people injured several days ago who were only now able to seek medical assistance. A 58-year-old man was diagnosed with multiple injuries and a concussion, while a 67-year-old woman sustained a blast injury, a concussion, and a back bruise.
The site of a Russian strike in the Sumy OblastTo provide background, Russian military shelling killed six people across Ukraine during the 24-hour period of February 2.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian human rights lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk has criticized U.S. President Donald Trump over a rise in civilian war casualties in Ukraine since he took office in 2025.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate pointed out that the number of Ukrainian civilians killed or injured because of the war rose by 31% compared to the previous year. She asked why Trump’s year of negotiations was the deadliest for Ukraine’s civilian population since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
“Why did Putin not allow himself such brutal strikes on civilian infrastructure under Biden, whom Trump calls ‘weak,’ but totally destroys peaceful cities and disregards the ‘strong Trump’?” she asekd on her Facebook page.
U.S. Republican Congressman Don Bacon has called on X to strengthen Ukraine’s air defense and provide it with long-range weapons amid Russia’s large-scale attacks. Bacon noted that Ukraine has managed to halt Russia’s advance on the battlefield and that over the past month, Russian occupation forces have lost some of their positions.
He also highlighted Russia’s high casualty rates, saying that Russian leader Vladimir Putin is “losing 1,000+ soldiers a day in his war of choice.”
“Thus, like Hitler, he’s resorted to bombing cities and terrorizing civilians. The U.S. must provide more air defenses and long-range strike weapons,” Bacon stressed.
Trilateral negotiations in the United Arab Emirates are taking place following a massive Russian strike on Ukraine. In response to the renewed shelling, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that the Ukrainian team’s work at the talks would undergo “adjustments.”
The negotiations are reportedly scheduled to continue on February 5. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian delegation is preparing a report for Zelenskyy on the results of the first day of talks, which concluded on February 4.
