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region.<\/p>\n<p>The boy, just 14 months old, had been playing in the yard of his home when the UAV crashed, piercing his heart with shrapnel on July 9.<\/p>\n<p>Dmytryk had been playing with his grandmother, Halyna, 64, when he was killed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She recalled: ‘I just jumped out and ran at full speed\u2026 I was sitting nearby, not far away, [seven or ten feet]\u00a0 from him. I heard the wind whistling, and then I heard a loud bang. <\/p>\n<p>‘When I turned my head, it was flying straight towards us. I was sitting here and heard the noise, turned my head, and saw it flying. I quickly jumped out of there. My husband picked him up – but he was already dead.’<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"636\" height=\"358\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-23662775 lazyload\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/100303773-0-image-a-2_1752517084023.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Grandmum Halyna was just feet away from the tot (Picture: east2west)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"442\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-23662755 lazyload\" alt=\"One-year-old boy Dmytryk was killed 'mercilessly and deliberately' in a Russian drone attack in southern Ukraine on July 9, 2025.\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SEI_259034061-4375.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Little Dmytryk’s toys are frozen in time (Picture: east2west)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ukrainian senior military official Oleksandr Prokudin said the boy, raised by his father and grandmother, was killed by Russia – mercilessly and deliberately.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Ukraine has said they ‘avenged’ his death, killing the drone operators who attacked the small village of Pravdyne where the tot lived. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This attack with a\u00a0Molniya drone had been launched from Hola Prystan, a Russian-occupied settlement.<\/p>\n<p>‘The location of the Russian war criminals’ unit was also identified –\u00a0 a five-story non-residential building,’ a statement from the general staff in Ukraine said.<\/p>\n<p>Five FPV drones were launched through the windows of the floor where the Russian personnel had been located, they said. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"357\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-23662720 lazyload\" alt=\"One-year-old boy Dmytryk was killed 'mercilessly and deliberately' in a Russian drone attack in southern Ukraine on July 9, 2025.\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SEI_258855095-fe35.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>The drone attack damaged nearby buildings (Picture: east2west)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"431\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-23662719 lazyload\" alt=\"A Ukrainian soldier performs a trial with an FPV drone in the region of Kharkiv, Ukraine, on March 19, 2025. (Photo by Alfons Cabrera\/NurPhoto via Getty Images)\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SEI_258765162-0b76.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Ukrainian soldiers are now operating FPV drones in Kharkiv to fight back (Picture: AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>‘After that, no further launches of Russian drones were observed from the building.\u00a0Our soldiers\u00a0will\u00a0avenge every Russian bast**d who came here to spread death,’ they added.<\/p>\n<p>Residents near the frontline often face ‘human safari\u201d hunts by Putin\u2019s forces.\u00a0Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s top aide, Andriy Yermak, said: ‘This wasn’t an accident. This was a manhunt.<\/p>\n<p>‘The operator watched a child playing through his drone camera, and he attacked in cold blood.’<\/p>\n<p>The attack came in the same week as the Russians hit a maternity hospital and a hospice for terminally ill orphans. <\/p>\n<p>In new weekend attacks, the Russians hit and damaged a hospital and kindergarten in Sloviansk with an Iranian-designed Shahed drone. <\/p>\n<p>Today, Donald Trump said he would punish Russia with tariffs if there is no deal to end the war in\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0within 50 days.<\/p>\n<p>The US president announced it during an Oval Office meeting with Nato secretary General Mark Rutte.<\/p>\n<p>‘We’re going to be doing very severe tariffs if we don’t have a deal in 50 days,’ Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>He did not provide specifics on how the tariffs would be implemented.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong><strong><strong>Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:webnews@metro.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">webnews@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>For more stories like this, <\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>check our news page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{“@context”:”https:\/\/schema.org”,”@type”:”VideoObject”,”name”:”Metro.co.uk”,”duration”:”T1M24S”,”thumbnailUrl”:”https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/07\/14\/19\/100303773-0-image-a-1_1752517083093.jpg”,”uploadDate”:”2025-07-14T19:17:51+0100″,”description”:”Dmytryk had been playing with his grandmother Halyna when he was killed.”,”contentUrl”:”https:\/\/videos.metro.co.uk\/video\/met\/2025\/07\/14\/8515354921918153627\/480x270_MP4_8515354921918153627.mp4″,”height”:270,”width”:480} To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next Page window.addEventListener(‘metroVideo:relatedVideosCarouselLoaded’, function(data) { if (typeof(data.detail) === ‘undefined’ || typeof(data.detail.carousel) === ‘undefined’ || typeof(data.detail.carousel.el_) === ‘undefined’) { return; } var player = data.detail.carousel.el_; var container = player.closest(‘.metro-video-player’); var placeholder = container.querySelector(‘.metro-video-player__up-next-placeholder’); if (placeholder) { container.removeChild(placeholder); container.classList.add(‘metro-video-player–related-videos-loaded’); } }); The Ukrainian army has said they \u2018avenged\u2019 … <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/ukraine-avenges-death-of-one-year-old-in-human-safari-by-russian-forces\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> “Ukraine avenges death of one-year-old in \u2018human safari\u2019 by Russian forces”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cost-of-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}