A Russian airstrike involving heavy guided bombs hit civilian infrastructure in the northern city of Sumy on Saturday afternoon, July 11, killing four people and injuring 17 others.
According to regional authorities, Russian forces dropped three guided aerial bombs on Sumy’s Zarichnyi district.
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Oleh Hryhorov, head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration, initially reported the strike at 2:44 p.m. local time, confirming casualties. In a subsequent update at 3:08 p.m., Hryhorov stated that the death toll had risen to four.
“It is known that four people are dead and seven are injured,” Hryhorov announced, noting that all seven surviving victims required immediate hospitalization.
Photographs released by the regional administration from the impact zone showed the scale of destruction, with a civilian passenger minibus having sustained severe damage.
Search and rescue operations are ongoing at the site as emergency crews continue to clear the debris. Hryhorov urged residents to remain in secure shelters and avoid the impact zones due to the high risk of follow-up “double-tap” strikes.
Later, the Sumy Regional Military Administration stated that the number of people wounded as a result of an enemy strike with guided bombs had risen to 17.
According to the report, the Russians struck a crowded area – where civilians were present and cars and public transportation were moving – with two guided aerial bombs. One of the strikes hit a road and a public transit stop. Another strike targeted an infrastructure facility.
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A coordinated Saturday barrage
The deadly strike in Sumy is part of a massive, coordinated campaign of Russian airstrikes, drone assaults, and missile attacks that battered both eastern and southern Ukraine throughout Saturday.
Earlier in the day, the eastern Donetsk region faced a similarly attack. Russian forces launched three FAB-250 guided aerial bombs at the center of Sloviansk at approximately 10:00 a.m. local time. A 67-year-old man was killed, his body pulled from the rubble of his own home. Three others were injured. The kinetic impact of the heavy munitions damaged at least 15 private residences, four multi-story apartment buildings, an administrative facility, and four vehicles.
The northeastern Kharkiv region also faced a relentless, multi-pronged assault. In the city of Izium, a Russian strike hit a residential area, directly damaging a multi-story building and injuring four people. In Kharkiv city, Russian forces struck a gas station in the Shevchenkivskyi district, resulting in verified casualties.
This followed a morning assault on Kharkiv’s Nemyshlianskyi district, where an “Italmas” drone struck a civilian enterprise, injuring seven people, partially destroying a warehouse, and damaging multiple vehicles.
The bombardment extended into southern Ukraine, inflicting further civilian casualties. In the port city of Odesa, Russian ballistic missile struck a civilian infrastructure facility, killing two people and inflicting shrapnel wounds on a 24-year-old man. Additionally, morning drone strikes targeted the Korabelnyi district of Kherson, leaving four people injured.
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