Russian drone strike on market in Sumy Oblast injures 10, two critically
Russian forces have attacked civilians at a market in the Bilopillia “hromada”, a local government area that includes one or more nearby settlements, in Sumy Oblast with a drone on the morning of 7 August, injuring 10 people, according to Oleh Hryhorov, head of Sumy Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram.
“Another cynical Russian strike against civilians in Sumy Oblast. The enemy attacked people at a market in the Bilopillia hromada this morning,” he said.
Hryhorov reported 10 people are currently known to have been injured, two of them critically.
Medics are providing those injured with the necessary treatment, and they are being taken to the hospital.
Moreover, on the night of 5-6 August, Russian forces launched four guided aerial bombs in an attack on Sumy, leaving at least 12 people injured and causing extensive damage.
Previously, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russian soldiers of taking pleasure in killing people. After footage emerged showing a Ukrainian market trader being chased by a drone, the 52-year-old was selling vegetables in Kherson when a drone circled his vehicle and then exploded, leaving him with a concussion and shrapnel wounds.
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Ukrainian experts point out that countries, including China, Greece, North Korea, India, Hungary, Slovakia, Iran, and Brazil, assist Moscow in killing Ukrainians in its war against Ukraine by funding the Russian budget through trade.
Human rights organisations and Ukrainian authorities emphasise that structural economic pressure remains a key tool to halt such atrocities. They urge every nation and individual government worldwide to strictly enforce global sanctions, close existing regulatory loopholes, and completely sever remaining commercial and technological ties with the Russian Federation. Civil society groups stress that any continued cooperation by foreign businesses directly contributes to the resources Moscow uses to sustain its ongoing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine.
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