A Ukrainian drone struck a train in Crimea, ​killing its assistant driver ‌and injuring the driver, the peninsula’s ​Russian-installed Governor Sergei ⁠Aksyonov said in a Telegram post early on Monday (June 8, 2026).

Passengers on the train, ‌commuting between Moscow and Simferopol, the main city ‌of the Russia-annexed Black ‌Sea ⁠Crimea peninsula, were not ⁠harmed, Mr. Aksyonov added.

Russia seized and annexed Crimea in 2014 — long before its 2022 ​full-scale invasion ‌of Ukraine — after public protests in Kyiv prompted a Moscow-friendly president to flee Ukraine. Crimea ‌is a popular destination ​for Russian tourists.

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Drone raid sirens were sounded in ⁠the early hours of Monday (June 8, 2026) in the Black Sea port ‌of Novorossiysk, a major export hub for oil and grains in Russia’s Krasnodar region about a two-hour drive from the bridge Moscow built ‌to connect to Crimea, local authorities ​said on Telegram.

The most recent Ukrainian drone strikes, ⁠attacking fuel infrastructure, have forced the ⁠Russian-controlled Crimea to tighten its rationing of fuel supplies.

Reuters ‌could not independently verify all the reports.

A Russian strike on the eastern Ukrainian city of Bogodukhiv killed four people, including three young children, an official said on Wednesday (February 11, 2026).

Two one-year-old boys and a two-year-old girl died as a result of an enemy strike, according to regional military head Oleg Synegubov.

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A 34-year-old man in the same house as the children also died from his wounds, Synegubov said on Telegram.

He added that a 74-year-old woman was wounded and was receiving medical assistance.

In an earlier statement, he also said a 35-year-old pregnant woman had been wounded in the strike.

Bogodukhiv is located in Kharkiv region, where Russian forces have recently stepped up attacks on transport and energy infrastructure.

Ukrainian and Russian officials have held U.S.-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi aimed at ending Moscow’s four-year invasion.

The two sides conducted a prisoner swap last week, though an agreement to draw a line under the conflict still seems a way off.

According to the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU), around 15,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed since Russia invaded in February 2022.

HRMMU said that 2025 was the deadliest year with more than 2,500 civilians killed.