A Russian drone attack on a civilian minibus has killed a 69-year-old man and injured 13 people, including an 8-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl, in the Mykolaivka village in the Sumy region.
The head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration, Oleh Hryhorov, reported on Sunday that, “the number of injured as a result of the enemy strike on a minibus in the Sumy district has increased to 13.
“Two of the wounded — a child and an adult — are in serious condition. Doctors are fighting for their lives,” Hryhorov said.
Among the injured are two children aged 8 and 15.
“As of 20:40, it is known that a 69-year-old man was killed as a result of the drone attack on the minibus,” the regional prosecutor’s office said in a Facebook statement.
“This week alone, the Russians have used nearly 1,200 attack drones and 50 missiles of various types – most of them ballistic – against Ukraine,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly address on Sunday.
“Defense against such a threat can only be a shared effort – no nation in the world should be left alone against this.”
Hryhorov noted that the route the minibus was taking was known to be a frequent target of Russian drones, and advised travelers to stay away.
“It is a high-risk area that the enemy has repeatedly attacked with drones,” he wrote. “A detour plan for passenger transport has been developed and approved. Alternative, safer routes have been communicated to transport operators,” he added, noting that ignoring these safety rules endangers lives.
Earlier in the weekend, Russian drones attacked multiple civilian neighborhoods throughout Ukraine, especially non-military targets in the capital, with at least 34 casualties in Kyiv alone.
In the capital, 31 residents, including seven children, were wounded and three killed in Russia’s overnight attack.
Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko reported that seven people had been hospitalized, including two children.
Kremlin forces attacked Ukraine with 101 strike UAVs from the Russian sectors of Kursk, Orel, Bryansk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, as well as from occupied Crimea; about 60 of the UAVs were reportedly Shahed drones.