Russia conducts 114 attacks on Sumy region in one day: one person killed, two injured
Over the past day, Russians carried out 114 shellings of the Sumy region’s border area, resulting in one death and two injuries, according to the Sumy Regional Military Administration.
In the Bilopillia hromadaі , Russians dropped explosive devices from UAVs and shelled with mortars and FPV drones. The attack injured a civilian and damaged a car.
In the Seredyna-Buda community, Russians dropped explosive devices from UAVs and carried out strikes with FPV drones. The shelling damaged a multi-story residential building. A mortar attack killed a civilian.
In the Myropillia hromada, Russians launched KABs and struck with an FPV drone. A drone strike on a vehicle carrying bread injured a civilian.
Colonel Andrii Demchenko, spokesman for the State Border Guard Service, reported on air during the national joint 24/7 newscast that Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups continue to attempt to cross the border of Ukraine in Sumy Oblast and place mines in the area.
He specified that these actions are most actively observed in the northern part of the region, although other border sections within Sumy Oblast remain vulnerable to similar incursions.
Additionally, Demchenko said that Russians are using small assault forces to concentrate their forces and expand active hostilities towards Novenke and Zhuravka. He added that Ukrainian border guards and armed forces units are targeting Russian infantry groups that have entered or are near the Ukrainian border.
ZMINA consistently reports on ongoing international crimes in the Sumy Oblast.
By way of background, law enforcement officers recovered the bodies of a man, 55, and his wife, 65, from a ruined house in the village of Bilovody in the Sumy Oblast on December 11, 2024, according to the Office of the Prosecutor General.
According to the investigation, the Russian airstrike destroyed the couple’s house.
The Russian Shahed-type kamikaze attack drones, which were equipped with shrapnel, targeted Sumy on the morning of November 22, according to the Suspilne, Ukraine’s public broadcaster, citing Volodymyr Artiukh, head of Sumy Oblast Military Administration, Sumy Oblast Prosecutor’s Office. In that attack, Russians killed two men and injured twelve others.
The aftermath of the Russian attack on November 22, 2024The attack of Russians damaged residential buildings, both multi-apartment and houses, as well as vehicles and a service station.
A Russian ballistic missile struck a residential building in Sumy on the evening of November 17, according to Artem Kobzar, acting Mayor of Sumy, Sumy City Council, local news outlet Kordon.Media, President Zelenskyy, and Prosecutor’s Office in the Sumy Oblast.
Kobzar reported that the missile strike severely damaged an apartment building, with numerous people injured. The attack damaged at least ten residential buildings and vehicles, the number of which is being determined.
12 people are reported to have been killed, including a boy, 9, and a girl, 14. The State Emergency Service of Ukraine stated that the number of those affected by the missile strike on Sumy had increased to 89 people, including 11 children.
Ilya Doroshenko was a much-anticipated child in the family. He was born with a severe illness. His relatives did everything in their power to ensure he had a happy childhood, as reported by the local news outlet “Kordon.Media”.
Last year, the boy’s father buried his brother Yevhen Doroshenko, who died defending Ukraine. Yevhen left behind three children.
Killed by Russians Illya Doroshenko and Anastasia BorovykPreviously, the Sumy Oblast Prosecutor’s Office reported that on the night of October 7-8, 2024, Russian aircraft attacked the civilian infrastructure of Esman hromada in the Sumy Oblast with aerial bombs, killing a couple – a 38-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman – were killed in their own home.
Ukraine urges the international community to unite to restore global security under the UN Charter and strengthen sanctions against Russia to enforce compliance with international law. Following Russia’s initial invasion in 2014, Ukraine has pursued the liberation of its territories within its internationally recognised 1991 borders while developing comprehensive reintegration strategies and policies for all liberated areas.
Earlier, Bohdan Bernatskyy, a member of the Sanctions Policy Working Group of the Crimean Platform Expert Network, revealed at the Third Parliamentary Summit in Latvia that over 1,300 Russian military companies and 2 million industry workers continue operating, many without international restrictions.
Previously, US President Donald Trump stated that he and Russian ruler Vladimir Putin will discuss “land,” “power plants,” and “dividing up certain assets” when they hold Ukraine peace talks on March 18. The Kremlin confirmed President Trump and the Russian ruler will talk on Tuesday.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that the Russian leader had set so many pre-conditions “that nothing will work out at all”.
Russia took back a significant amount of territory in the Kurs’k Oblast during the period when the US ceased sharing intelligence with Ukraine.
Finnish President Alexander Stubb, after a video conference of the “coalition of the willing”, stated that Russia is trying to play a long game in Ukraine but does not genuinely want a ceasefire or peace.
He made this statement after a video conference of the “coalition of the willing,” organized by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer,
According to Stubb, Russia is currently trying to buy time.
“Putin is not seeking a truce, ceasefire, or peace. His fundamental goal, namely the destruction of Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity, has not changed at all,” Stubb said, as reported by Yle.
Meanwhile, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas also said following a morning meeting of the bloc’s Foreign Affairs Council that Russia doesn’t want peace.
“There’s no negotiation table yet because Russia is not coming to the negotiation table,” she said, describing the continuing peace talks as “shuttle diplomacy”.
