Russian glide bomb attack: dead and injured in Sumy

Ukraine war

Russian glide bomb attack: dead and injured in Sumy

In the Ukrainian city of Sumy near the border with Russia, the dropping of glide bombs claims several victims. A minor is also among the dead.

The Russian military has killed at least four people by dropping glide bombs on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy. “There is also a girl among them,” Sumy Mayor Artem Kobsar said in a video shared on his Telegram channel. The head of Sumy’s military administration, Oleh Hryhorov, later said that the number of injured had risen to 17. A bus stop was hit, he wrote. Kobsar’s video shows a bomb crater in the asphalt and a mangled minibus in a residential area. Local authorities warned of further attacks.

Russia frequently uses glide bombs in its war against Ukraine, which has now lasted more than four years. They are dropped from aircraft far from the front and then hover over a distance of several kilometers towards the target. Although the weapons are guided, they are not considered particularly accurate. They repeatedly hit civilian objects.

Russia claims the four Ukrainian regions of Kherson, Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhia. Russian troops also occupy strips of land in the Ukrainian regions of Sumy and Kharkiv, which border Russia. Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin declared last year that it wanted to create a buffer zone there to protect the Russian civilian population from Ukrainian attacks. While the gains made by the Russian units there are minimal, the suffering of the Ukrainian civilian population has increased even further.