Russian bombs kill two, injure nine in Sumy, including three children
Four guided aerial bombs struck central Sumy on Monday, killing two people and injuring nine, including three children, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said.
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One of the injured children in the Sumy strike is one year old; the school hit was in Zarichnyi district.
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Russian forces struck the centre of Sumy with four on Monday, killing two people and injuring nine, including three children, (DSNS) said. One bomb hit a school building in the city's Zarichnyi district, while other strikes damaged several private homes and a cemetery, DSNS said.
Classes were under way at the school when it was hit, but pupils and teachers had already moved into a shelter and none of them was hurt, Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi said. President Volodymyr Zelensky said about 100 people, including children and staff, were evacuated from the school in time, and he thanked its teachers and administration.
Rescuers fought fires at three separate addresses in the city, DSNS said. An earlier figure from Zelensky put the injured at six, all from the strike on the private housing sector rather than the school; DSNS's later count of nine, including the three children, is the most recent official tally.
Ukraine's state emergency service separately reported damage to two residential areas of Sumy from the same wave of strikes. Ukrinform reported that KAB strikes, drone attacks and mortar fire injured four people across the wider Sumy region on the same day, though it was not clear whether that figure referred to the same casualties described in the city or to separate incidents elsewhere in the region; the tallies should not be added together.
Koretskyi said Russian strikes were continuing "almost without interruption" across much of the country, with attacks overnight and during the day hitting eleven regions: Kyiv, Odesa, Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Volyn, Rivne, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Sumy. He said Russia continued to target residential buildings, civilian businesses, and transport and energy infrastructure.
Zelensky said Ukraine expects any response from its partners to go beyond statements, and that Russia would not stop such attacks without real pressure from the United States and Europe.
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What we know
- Official · DSNS Four guided aerial bombs hit central Sumy on Monday, DSNS said.
- Official · DSNS Two people were killed and nine injured, including three children, per DSNS.
- 1 outlet · Liga.net A school in the Zarichnyi district was hit, but pupils and staff had already sheltered and were unhurt.
- 1 outlet · Liga.net Rescuers fought fires at three addresses in the city.
- Official · prime minister Russian strikes hit eleven regions of Ukraine the same day, the prime minister said.
Not yet confirmed
- Unconfirmed Whether the four injured reported by Ukrinform in the wider Sumy region are among those already counted in the city, or a separate toll.
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Why it matters for Europe
Sumy, close to the Russian border, has been a repeated target of Russian strikes as Moscow's forces say they want to create a buffer zone in the border areas of the region. The attack on a school, even though it produced no casualties there, adds to a pattern of strikes on Ukrainian education facilities that Kyiv says are deliberately targeted.
Updates
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One of the injured children in the Sumy strike is one year old; the school hit was in Zarichnyi district.
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Injured toll rises to nine, including three children, Ukraine's State Emergency Service says.
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- President of Ukraine: All emergency services are working at the site of a Russian airstrike in Sumy right now. Four guided aerial bombs struck the center of the city, hitting a school building where classes were in session. I thank the teachers and school administration – the children and teachers
- Liga.net: Росія вдарила КАБами по школі у Сумах: евакуювали 100 людей. У місті є загиблі та поранені – фото
- Ukrinform: Russian KAB strikes, drone attacks and mortar fire injure four people in Sumy region
- NV: Ворог не змагається на полі бою, він знищує націю — голова Сумської МВА про удар по школі. Фоторепортаж
- Ukrinform: Russian glide-bomb strikes on central Sumy leaves two killed, children among wounded
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Questions and answers
- How many people were killed and injured in the Sumy strike?
- Two people were killed and nine injured, including three children, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said.
- Was the school hit in the attack?
- Yes, one of four guided bombs hit a school building, but pupils and teachers had already moved to a shelter and were unhurt.
- What other damage was reported?
- Private homes and a cemetery were damaged, and rescuers fought fires at three addresses in the city, DSNS said.
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