Russian shelling kills 13-year-old boy and two civilians in Kramatorsk (updated)
On the afternoon of March 29, 2026, Russian shelling targeted Kramatorsk in the Donetsk Oblast, claiming the lives of three civilians, including a 13-year-old boy, according to the Office of the General Prosecutor.
In addition to the fatalities, six others — a woman and five men aged 19 to 84 — sustained various injuries.
The specific type of weaponry used and the full extent of the damage are currently under investigation.
The National Police clarified that at 12:36 PM, Russian forces dropped five KAB-250 guided aerial bombs on Kramatorsk. The strike claimed the lives of three people: a 65-year-old man, a 61-year-old woman, and a 13-year-old boy. Fourteen others, aged 19 to 84, sustained injuries of varying severity.
The attack damaged over 30 civilian facilities, including residential homes, schools, administrative buildings, a cultural center, a shop, a cafe, and numerous vehicles.
Later, at approximately 2:35 PM, Kramatorsk was targeted in a second attack, preliminarily identified as involving cluster munitions. One person is reported injured in this secondary strike.
This attack follows a similar tragedy on March 28, where another 13-year-old child was killed by falling drone debris in the Voskresenske “hromada,” a local government area that includes one or more nearby settlements, in Mykolaiv region, according to the Mykolaiv Oblast Military Administration.
By way of background, the civilian toll of Russian aggression continues to mount: on March 26, four people were killed in the Kherson, Donetsk, and Sumy regions. A wave of shelling and drone attacks also left at least 23 wounded, including residents of the Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, and Kharkiv Oblasts, highlighting the nationwide scale of the targeted violence.
In the week of March 23–29 alone, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Russian military deployed over 3,000 strike drones, more than 1,450 guided aerial bombs (KABs), and 40 missiles of various types against Ukraine’s cities and communities.
Photo credit: Vadym Filashkin, head of the Donetsk Oblast Military Administration and the National Police of Ukraine
