(Reuters) -Two brothers aged four and six and their parents were killed in an overnight Russian drone attack on a village in the northern Sumy region, the regional governor Oleh Hryhorov said on Tuesday.
"Last night, the enemy purposefully hit a residential building with an attack drone in the village of Chernechchyna," Hryhorov wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
He added the family's bodies were pulled from under the rubble.
Reuters could not immediately verify the report.
Russian forces are engaged in a long, grinding war along the front line through eastern and southern Ukraine, but have also tried to gain a foothold in areas like Sumy, which borders Russia's Kursk region.
Russia denies targeting civilians in its almost daily drone and missile attacks on Ukraine. Thousands of civilians have been killed and homes, apartment blocks and commercial property damaged and destroyed.
(Reporting by Anna Pruchnicka; Editing by Mike Collett-White and Kate Mayberry)
