Russian drone attacks Sumy territorial community, child injured

Russian drone attacks Sumy territorial community, child injured

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During the day, a Russian strike UAV attacked the Sumy territorial community, causing damage, affecting the power supply system, and injuring a child.

This was reported by the head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration, Oleh Hryhorov, on Telegram, according to Ukrinform.

“About an hour ago, a Russian strike UAV attacked the Sumy community. A hit was recorded in the Zarichnyi District of the regional center,” Hryhorov wrote.

According to him, the windows of a residential building, a car, and the power grid were damaged. Some houses were left without electricity.

Preliminarily, there were no injuries, but the parents of a 7-year-old boy who was near the explosion site and complained of feeling unwell sought medical attention.

The area is still being checked out, and the consequences of the enemy attack are being taken care of.

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It was reported that over the past day, Russian troops fired almost 70 times on 33 settlements in 13 communities in the Sumy Region. In the Svesa territorial community, one person (born in 1947) was killed in a UAV attack, and in the Shostka community, two civilians (born in 1968 and 1977) were injured.

Photo: Oleh Hryhorov/Telegram

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