Ten buildings and vehicles were damaged in a Russian strike this Sunday, November 17, announced the Sumy region prosecutor's office. According to this source, ten people were injured.
A Russian missile strike left eight dead, including a child, and at least ten injured this Sunday, November 17 in Sumy, a city in northeastern Ukraine, the regional prosecutor's office announced, the country having already been targeted by a major air attack the previous night.
“Eight dead, including a child, and ten injured in a missile attack on a densely populated residential area of Sumy,” the prosecutor’s office announced.
Ten buildings and vehicles were damaged, according to the same source. Photos, released by the prosecutor's office, show a building with blown out windows and cars with broken windows.
“Criminals must be punished”
Sumy is the main city of a region of the same name, bordering several Russian regions including Kursk, where Ukraine took control of dozens of localities during a major offensive in August.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced the strike against the city on Sunday evening. “Criminals must be punished for killing innocent people,” he wrote on Telegram.
Ukraine was targeted, during the night from Saturday to Sunday, by a large-scale attack targeting in particular its energy network, already very fragile. Russian strikes, during the night and the day, left ten people dead and around twenty injured, according to the latest report from local authorities.
It was one of “the largest and most dangerous Russian attacks” since the start of the war, Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday. These strikes occur at a time when Ukraine, in difficulty on the front, fears losing American support with the imminent return of Donald Trump to the White House.
They also arrive two days after a call between German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Russian President Vladimir Putin, a resumption of contact deemed dangerous by kyiv
