The results increases to at least 31 dead including 2 children in a Russian strike on Soumy, according to help – Liberation

“Russia has struck the city center with ballistic missiles. Just when there were a lot of people on the street ”, said these services on social networks. The attack took place « One day when people go to church: on Sunday branches … Only bastards can do this », had little time before launched Volodymyr Zelensky, reporting several « Dozens of deaths and injured ».

The border town of Soumy has undergone repeated attacks in recent weeks from the Russian forces, since Moscow pushed a large part of the Ukrainian troops from the Russian region of Koursk. « Many dead today after a missile strike », Also said the mayor of Soumy, Artem Kobzar, on social networks. The regional military administration has specified that two ballistic missiles had been drawn in the center of the city. Images on social networks, whose authenticity could not be verified, show calcined cars and plumes of smoke rising in the air.

Soumy is some 50 kilometers from the border with Russia and Kyiv warns for several 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.

Update at 11:27 am with more context; at 11:47 a.m. with the results of the wounded revised upwards; at 12:59 p.m. with an increased balance sheet.