A Russian glide bomb tore into a residential block in the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy yesterday, killing two people and wounding seven, Ukrainian officials said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, writing on the Telegram messaging app, condemned what he called an “absolutely inhuman strike”.
Mr Zelensky said rescue teams pulled four people from the wreckage and cautioned that more residents could still be buried beneath the rubble.
“There was a direct hit by an aerial bomb between the third and fourth floors. Four people have already been rescued from under the rubble, including a child,” he said.
Mr Zelensky shared photographs on Telegram that showed the building’s façade blown open, with emergency workers picking through debris inside.
The head of Sumy city council said the two people killed were city employees.
Regional Governor Oleh Hryhorov said three of the seven injured were in a serious condition.
Sumy, close to the Russian border, has been repeatedly struck as Moscow says it wants to create a buffer zone in the area.
President Zelensky said Russian forces also struck a clinic in the central city of Pavlohrad and a logistics centre outside Kyiv, but he gave no details on casualties.
In another attack, an earlier Russian strike on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Balakliia killed two people and injured two, Vitali Karabanov, the head of the city’s military administration, said on Telegram.
Balakliia, in Kharkiv region, fell to Russian troops in the early weeks of Moscow’s February 2022 full-scale invasion of its smaller neighbour, but Ukrainian forces later recaptured it during a major counteroffensive that year.
Kyiv also came under a Russian missile attack earlier in the evening, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, though there was no indication of casualties or damage.
Both Russia and Ukraine deny targeting civilians in the war.
