Authorities said the boy died following a strike on a village in Kherson amid Russia's increased bombardment of Ukrainian cities.

July 9, during the day, Russian forces struck the village of Pravdyne in Ukraine’s Kherson region. As a result of the attack, a boy just one year and two months old was killed, according to the head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration,

Ukraine was hit by the largest airborne assault of the war after Russian unleashed more than 700 drones and missiles targeting 14 of the country's 24 provinces.