Russian military launches nearly 100 guided bombs at Sumy region, killing civilian
Russian forces have dropped guided aerial bombs on the Richky hromada і in the Sumy Oblast, killing a woman, according to the Sumy Oblast Prosecutor’s Office.
“Early reports indicate that on the evening of May 8, the enemy dropped eight guided aerial bombs on the Richky hromada in the Sumy district. Only on the morning of 9 May, the body of a 63-year-old woman with no signs of life was found on the territory of one of the households,” the statement of the prosecutor’s office reads.
A criminal investigation has been opened into this incident.
Colonel Yurii Ihnat, Head of the Public Communications Directorate of Ukraine’s Air Force Command, during the national joint 24/7 newscast, said that Russians have dropped nearly one hundred guided aerial bombs on the Sumy Oblast since the beginning of 8 May, defying the so-called “parade ceasefire” that the Putin regime declared for Victory Day.
“These bombings began at 02:30. As of now [16:00 – ed.], nearly 100 guided aerial bombs have been dropped on Sumy Oblast alone. That is an enormous number of munitions. A large number of Russian aircraft have been involved in the bombardment of Sumy,” Ihnat said.
According to the General Staff update, as of 22:00 on May 9, there have been 162 combat engagements on the front since the start of the day, 51 of them in the Pokrovsk direction.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine invited several heads of diplomatic missions accredited in Ukraine, whose high-ranking state officials were present at the military parade in Moscow. According to the MFA’s statement, a demarche was delivered to the diplomats of the respective countries.
The First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Sergiy Kyslytsya emphasized that, during Russia’s ongoing war of aggression, mass killings of Ukrainians, strikes on civilian infrastructure, war crimes and crimes against humanity, the presence of foreign high-rank officials at a parade hosted by the aggressor state is regarded by Ukraine as an unfriendly step.
The Ukrainian side underscored the significant contribution of the Ukrainian people, together with other nations of the anti-Hitler coalition and the former USSR, to the victory over Nazism 80 years ago.
The MFA stated that Ukraine will not allow Russia to hijack the memory of the past, appropriate the collective victory, or diminish the decisive role played by the Ukrainian people.
Sergiy Kyslytsya recalled that Russia continues to reject efforts to restore peace and has yet to accept the U.S. proposal for a full and unconditional 30-day ceasefire, which Ukraine agreed to back on March 11. He stressed that Russia has even failed to comply with its own so-called “parade ceasefire,” continuing its daily assaults along the entire front line.
Ukrainian diplomats stated that the presence of high-ranking officials of certain states in the Kremlin-organised events has nothing in common with honouring the memory of the victims and heroes of World War II. On the contrary, it constitutes a desecration of that memory and an endorsement of the current aggression in Europe, Russia’s ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine.
