Russian drones killed four civilians in food production facility of Yagotynske for Children plant in Kyiv Oblast

Date: 05 June 2026
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A Russian drone attack killed four people and injured four others at a food production facility, “Yagotynske for Children” plant in Kyiv Oblast’s Brovary District on the morning of 5 June, 2026, according to Mykola Kalashnyk, head of the Kyiv Oblast Military Administration, and Viktoriia Ruban, spokesperson for the State Emergency Service in Kyiv Oblast.

Firefighters respond to a heavily damaged blue-and-white commercial building in Ukraine's Kyiv region, with debris strewn across the foreground and smoke rising from blown-out sections. The State Emergency Service of Ukraine emblem is visible in the upper-left corner. Aftermath of the Russian attack on the Yagotynske for Children plant on 5 June, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

“The enemy attacked a peaceful civilian food production facility, where people were simply carrying out their work duties,” Kalashnyk said. 

All necessary services are working at the scene. Emergency crews are continuing rescue operations, search efforts, and clean-up activities.

In response to the Russian attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy issued a statement. 

Ukrainian firefighters work amidst thick smoke inside a heavily damaged, burnt-out section of a building in the Kyiv region. A ladder rests against the exposed upper floor, and the State Emergency Service of Ukraine emblem is visible in the upper-left corner. Aftermath of the Russian attack on the Yagotynske for Children plant on 5 June, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

“The list of Russia’s latest ‘ victories’ over the past few days has grown to include the Yagotynske for Children plant, which produced food products for children. As of now, seven people have been reported injured. Tragically, four people were killed. My condolences to their families and loved ones,” the president said.

In addition, he reported that Russians struck food warehouses and a postal facility in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, an ambulance in Kherson, a school building in the Sumy Oblast, port infrastructure in the Odesa Oblast, ordinary residential buildings, and an outpatient clinic building in the Kharkiv Oblast.
 
“Russia continues its war against life, and everyone who helps us is truly standing up to defend it. Every support package with anti-ballistic defence, every joint agreement on weapons production, every step the world takes in sanctions against Russia – all of this helps protect people’s lives. I thank everyone who stands with Ukraine! It is important for all of us together to force Russia to end its war and move toward diplomacy”, the president stated.

Earlier, Zelenskyy reiterated to countries in his evening address that no type of Russian missile or drone can be manufactured without foreign components. In light of this, he once again emphasised the critical need to block the supply chains that deliver these components and technologies to Russia for the production of strike weapons.

“This means that in every such strike there is – perhaps not always conscious, but still real – complicity of those who work for Russia, who supply Russia with money, who help it bypass sanctions and find not just one or two, but thousands of components without which Russian military production would simply come to a halt,” the president said. 

Zelenskyy elaborated that five Kalibr missiles contain 145 such components. Thirty-three Iskander missiles contain 1,122 components. Six hundred and fifty strike drones of various types contain more than 17,000 components, without which they could not be produced.

“These are large-scale schemes designed to bypass sanctions, and this is absolutely real complicity in the killings,” he added.

Later, Zelenskyy said during his address to participants of the NATO-Ukraine Council meeting in Kyiv that the occupying state has the capacity to produce approximately 120 ballistic missiles every month.

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