At 15:88 it became known that the number of victims from the Russian strike on Sumy on April 13 has increased to 99, including 11 children. It is also known that the number of victims has increased to 32.
UPD at 18:26. The number of deaths from the strike on Sumy has increased to 34, including two children. As of 18:00 it is also known about 117 injured people, including 15 children.
This is reported by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.
The Ministry of Health reported that 34 people were hospitalized, 10 of them in serious condition.
It has now been established that Russian units of the 112th and 448th missile brigades attacked Sumy with two “Iskander-M/KN-23” ballistic missiles, said the head of the Defense Ministryʼs GUR Kyrylo Budanov. According to him, the attack came from the territory of the Voronezh and Kursk regions of Russia.
Trumpʼs special representative Keith Kellogg responded to the Russian attack.
"Todayʼs attack by Russian forces on civilian targets in Sumy on Palm Sunday crosses all lines of decency. There are dozens of civilians killed and injured. As a former military commander, I understand what targeting is, and it is wrong. That is why President Trump is doing everything he can to end this war," he wrote.
UPD. The head of the Sumy Military Regional Administration Serhiy Kryvosheyenko said that it was the repeated strike with a ballistic missile that caused human losses with a large number of dead and wounded.
According to him, the second ballistic missile probably contained fragmentation elements and exploded in the air to cause maximum damage to people on the streets of the city. According to preliminary findings, most of the civilians died from these damaging elements.
The explosion occurred approximately 200 meters from the initial impact site, in an area where residential buildings, educational institutions, and shops are located.
All services, law enforcement agencies, and experts continue to work at the scene. Official reports on the type of ammunition used by the Russians will be released soon, Kryvosheyenko stressed.
- The Russians struck the center of Sumy on the morning of April 13. Residential and non-residential buildings were damaged, and the epicenter of the attack was the premises of the regional Human Rights Protection Center.
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