Second Russian bomb attack on Sumy in a day injures six

Russian forces struck Sumy with six guided KAB bombs on Sunday afternoon, the second such attack on the north-eastern Ukrainian city that day, injuring six people, two of them seriously, said Serhii Kryvosheenko, head of the Sumy city military administration, according to Ukrainian outlets Censor.net and NV.

The bombs hit two residential areas, the Zarichnyi and Kovpakivskyi districts, damaging private houses, Kryvosheenko said.

Three of the injured were hospitalised, according to Mykola Savchenko, deputy director of the Sumy regional hospital, who spoke to public broadcaster Suspilne. A man born in 1958 and a man born in 1967 were admitted with serious injuries, and a woman born in 1952 was treated for injuries of moderate severity.

Portuguese outlet Correio da Manhã separately reported at least seven people injured in the attack; that higher figure has not been matched to an official statement from Sumy's authorities.

The afternoon strike came hours after a separate Russian attack on the same city earlier on Sunday. Oleh Hryhorov, head of the Sumy regional military administration, told NV that five guided bombs were directed at the wider Sumy community that morning, with one strike hitting the Zarichnyi district and killing one person, whom Hryhorov said was an employee of a local company. A child was also hurt in that attack, and seven apartment blocks, a car shop and about 25 vehicles were damaged, the Sumy city military administration said.

Russian forces also used drones that day to attack a warehouse storing medical supplies in Sumy, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, according to Ukrainian media reports.

Public broadcaster Suspilne's Sumy bureau and the Sumy city military administration's Telegram channel both published photographs showing damage to buildings and vehicles from the day's attacks.