Air Delivered event in Kherson area, Ukraine on Tue 18th August 2026

18th August 2026

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A Russian drone dropped an RPG warhead into a two-year-old boy’s bed.

He was sleeping in it.

The child survived.

According to police in Ukraine’s Kherson region, Russian forces attacked a private home in the city with a drone.

The munition — identified by police as a PG-7V shaped-charge RPG round — flew through a window, entered the room and landed directly in the child’s crib.

It did not detonate.

The two-year-old boy was unharmed. His mother immediately took him to a nearby hospital, where doctors confirmed that neither was in danger.

Police later removed the munition from the bed and documented the incident as another alleged Russian war crime.

The family is now being evacuated from Kherson with the help of police and volunteers.

This is what living under Russia’s drone war can mean for civilians in southern Ukraine.

Not a distant frontline.

Not a military position.

A bedroom.

A child asleep in his bed.

And an RPG warhead beside him.

Source: Kherson Regional Police, August 18, 2026

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