The attack intervened two days after the meeting in Saint-Petersburg between the American emissary Steve Witkoff and the Russian president Vladimir Putin. And despite the dissatisfaction expressed publicly by American president Donald Trump with regard to Moscow this month, to have “bombed like crazy“A Ukraine.
Russia has attacked Ukraine relentlessly in recent weeks despite Trump’s pressure for the conflict to end. “”Talking has never stopped the ballistic missiles and the bombs“, and Commenté M. Greats.
At the beginning of April, a Russian attack on the city of Kryvyi Rig (center) killed 18 people, including nine children, and shocked the whole country.
Soumy is close to the Russian border and has undergone increasing pressure since Moscow pushed a large part of the Ukrainian troops from the neighboring Russian region of Koursk.
This city has so far been spared by the intensity of the fights observed further south in the Donetsk region, but kyiv has been warning for weeks that Moscow could launch an offensive.
Russia had claimed Thursday the capture of a village in the border region of Soumy, which would constitute a rare advance in this area in northeast of Ukraine whose troops had to withdraw in the spring of 2022.
The commander of the Ukrainian armies, Oleksandre Syrsky, said on Wednesday that the Russians had started “A few days ago“Offensives in the Soumy and Kharkiv regions, also in the northeast, to create”Tampons areas“And thus avoid new Ukrainian incursions.
