Russians drop aerial bombs on Sumy Oblast and kill two people

The Russian armed forces launched an airstrike on the civilian infrastructure of the Krasnopillia hromadaі in the Sumy Oblast on February 11, 2025. The Office of the Prosecutor General reported that Russians killed a 40-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman. 

The Sumy Oblast Prosecutor’s Office reported that at around 15:00, Russian troops struck the civilian infrastructure of the Krasnopillia hromada.

Reports indicate that the Russians dropped two guided aerial bombs.

The attack killed a 40-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman. An agricultural company, several vehicles and a building were also damaged.

By way of background, the Russian armed forces have shelled the Sumy region every day in recent weeks. On February 4, the Sumy Oblast Military Administration reported that Russian forces conducted 105 attacks on 13 hromadas in Sumy Oblast during February 3, killing one person and injuring two others.

The hromadas of Sumy, Khotin, Yunakivka, Myropillia, Bilopillia, Krasnopillia, Velyka Pysarivka, Nova Sloboda, Esman, Shalyhyne, Khutir-Mykhailivskyi, Seredyna-Buda and Svesa were targeted that day. The highest number of explosions, 36, was recorded in the Velyka Pysarivka hromada.

ZMINA consistently reports on ongoing international crimes in the Sumy Oblast.

In an interview with UK broadcaster ITV News, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine’s Victory Plan could form the basis for US President Donald Trump’s plan to end Russia’s war against Ukraine. Zelenskyy emphasized that Trump’s plan would ideally include European involvement.

The president reminded viewers that the Peace Formula spells out what constitutes a just peace for Ukraine based on international law.

Meeting of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy with the Federal Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz on December 2, 2024

“Any plan, if it brings 10%, 20%, 30% towards the basis of a just peace – those are good steps, good steps forward. But I am confident that we can’t talk about a just peace while evil goes unpunished,” Zelenskyy said.

“We are fighting for peace today. I think that peace for a lot of Ukrainians is victory. Because I really do think that because Putin could not fully occupy us, he has already lost… But the victory you’re thinking of, a resounding victory – it’s not that important. All those parades and so forth – they’re things that Putin loves. For us, it’s about ending the war, living and developing our country and understanding how to integrate all these territories,” the president added.

Zelenskyy also expressed surprise that the entire world has been unable to stop Putin in the last three years.

The president stated that suspending martial law for elections would cause Ukraine to lose its army, which Russians would exploit. Zelenskyy again highlighted the challenge of ensuring voting access for military personnel, people in occupied territories, and millions of displaced Ukrainians abroad.

“You will see, if there’ll be elections and those people abroad who can’t vote or in the temporarily occupied, or temporarily occupied territories, Russia will later say ‘we don’t believe in these elections’. Even though I’m not interested in their opinion. But still, they will say ‘these elections were not legitimate’… How can people in the temporarily occupied territories which are Russian-controlled fairly vote? It will be about the same referendum that happened in Crimea. A referendum at gunpoint – that’s what is happening. Why do the Russians want it? That’s exactly why – total instability in Ukraine. That’s why I would be very careful with this question,” he stated.

Ukraine urges the international community to unite in restoring 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 recognized 1991 borders while developing comprehensive reintegration strategies and policies for all liberated areas.

In an interview with YouTube blogger Tilo Jung, Sahra Wagenknecht, leader of the German pro-Russian far-left party Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance, was asked whether she was pleased that Ukraine still exists after three years of full-scale war, rather than capitulating to Russia in the first week. She called the cost of resistance “absurd” and argued that the “death of a million people” was allegedly unnecessary.

Former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin, in an interview for the Civil Network OPORA, stated that Western countries lack the political will to confront Russia and are doing so with Ukrainian hands. Moreover, they do not believe that Russia will attack them in the future. He emphasised that for EU countries, security is not a value but rather a comfort of life and the Zeitenwende has not shifted the mentality of German society. Klimkin is convinced that [Russian ruler Vladimir] “Putin and his entourage sense this weakness at an instinctual level”.