Russian drone barrage kills four at Kyiv-Oblast food plant, wounds six civilians in Kharkiv oblast

Four workers were killed and seven others injured when Russian drones struck a food-production facility in Brovary district, Kyiv oblast, at 8:00 am on 5 June, Kyiv oblast head Mykola Kalashnyk, State Emergency Service of Kyiv oblast spokesperson Viktoriia Ruban, and Kyiv oblast police spokesperson Yana Yermolenko reported.

The strike was part of a wider overnight Russian drone-and-missile barrage that also injured six civilians, including two children, in Kharkiv oblast.

The strike on the civilian plant, while a rescue operation was still underway, illustrates a recurring pattern in Russia's war on Ukraine: industrial and residential sites struck during working or daylight hours, maximizing civilian exposure at the moment of impact.

Strike on Brovary food plant

Kalashnyk said the Russians had struck a peaceful civilian food-industry enterprise and that the victims were people who at that moment were simply doing their jobs at their workplaces. The attack took place at 8:00 am, Yermolenko confirmed. An administrative building on the plant's grounds caught fire, and structural elements were partially destroyed. Rescue services reported that two workers had already been freed from the rubble, and that others may still be inside.

Ruban initially reported three dead at 9:50 am; Kalashnyk subsequently updated the toll to four killed. All emergency services were operating at the scene, with rescue, search, and consequence-elimination operations ongoing.

FPV drone targets families in Kharkiv oblast

On the evening of 4 June, Russian forces directed an FPV drone at people walking along a street in the village of Hubarivka, Bohodukhiv district, Kharkiv oblast, the Kharkiv regional prosecutor's office reported. The drone detonated beside two families who were out with their children. Six civilians were injured: two men, two women, a two-year-old girl, and a 12-year-old girl. All six were hospitalized, the prosecutor's office said.

Air defenses intercept 198 of 216 drones

Russia launched the overnight attack using two guided aerial missiles of the Kh-59/69 type and 216 drones of various types, Ukraine's Air Force reported as of 7:30 am on 5 June. Air defenses shot down or suppressed 198 Russian UAVs—including Shahed, Herber, and Italmas types—over the north, south, and east of the country. Sixteen strike drones hit 13 locations; wreckage from downed drones fell at 12 further locations. The two guided missiles did not reach their targets, the Air Force said.

The missiles were launched from temporarily occupied territory in Zaporizhzhia oblast; the drones were launched from the directions of the Russian cities of Orel, Kursk, Bryansk, and Prymorsько-Akhtarsk, as well as from Cape Chauda in occupied Crimea. The attack was repelled by aviation, air defense missile units, electronic warfare units, unmanned systems units, and mobile fire groups of Ukraine's Defense Forces. As of the morning report, several enemy UAVs remained airborne.