Overview

• The strike occurred at 3 a.m. over the weekend when debris from a Russian cruise missile struck the Martyniuk family home in Korostyshiv, killing 8-year-old Tamara, 12-year-old Stanislav and 17-year-old Roman and wounding their parents.
• Hundreds of residents gathered at Korostyshiv’s Soviet-era Palace of Culture for a funeral service marked by open coffins and silent mourners.
• The deaths follow April’s toll of 209 civilian fatalities and 1,146 injuries, the highest civilian monthly casualty count since September 2024, according to the U.N. human rights office.
• Nearly half of April’s civilian casualties were caused by missile attacks using powerful explosives and fragmentation warheads in cities such as Kryvyi Rih, Sumy and Kharkiv.
• Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office reports at least 630 children have been killed since the invasion began, despite Moscow’s denials of civilian targeting.