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Russia attacked the Ukrainian city of Sumy on Tuesday, killing at least three people and injuring 20, according to Ukraine’s emergency service.
According to the preliminary investigation results, Russia struck the city with long-range multiple-launch rocket systems.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at least one of the missiles failed to detonate, piercing the wall of a nine-story residential apartment building.
“The Russians launched a savage strike on Sumy – directly targeting the city and its ordinary streets with rocket artillery. It was a fully deliberate attack on civilians”, Zelenskyy said in a statement.
Sumy region military administration reported that a medical facility, cars and residential buildings were damaged by the strikes.
“That alone says everything one needs to know about Russia’s so-called ‘desire’ to end this war,” Ukraine’s president added, calling on the US and Europe to increase pressure on Moscow as “not a single day goes by without Russia striking Ukrainian cities and villages.”
The Sumy region in north-eastern Ukraine borders Russia’s Kursk and Belgorod regions. Its proximity to the border made it a constant target of Russian shelling and repeated assaults.
Moscow troops have recently intensified their military activity along the border of the Sumy region. Zelenskyy earlier warned that Russia has accumulated some 50,000 troops at that part of the border, seeking to invade it and create a 10km buffer zone.
Russia’s overnight drone attacks on Ukraine continue
Russia launched 112 drones at Ukraine overnight, including the Shahed-type UAVs.
Air Forces managed to down 60 drones, 15 UAVs were intercepted by electronic warfare or disappeared from radars without causing any damage, according to the official statement.
Five people were injured in the southern Odesa region in the attack. The drone strike also set a food warehouse on fire and damaged residential buildings and cars.
Russian drone and missile attacks on the Sumy region injured four people, according to local authorities. In the neighbouring Kharkiv region, at least three people were killed in an overnight attack.
In southern Ukraine, Russian drones struck a State Emergency Service building and service vehicles in the Zaporizhzhia region.