(Update: 1. paragraph selenskyj to higher the dead)
Sumy (dpa -Afx) – At least nine people were killed in a Russian drone attack on the city of Sumy in the northeast of Ukraine. This number gave President Wolodymyr Selenskyj in his evening video address. After the hit on a high -rise building with many apartments, the Ukrainian authorities had increased the information about found deaths several times during the day.
The rescue work in the city near the border with Russia continued. Five apartments and twelve balconies were destroyed on four floors. Dozens of window panes therefore broke. Several cars were damaged on the ground, the authorities said.
“An ordinary house was destroyed,” said Selenskyj in his speech. It is Russia’s “typical handwriting” to ruin the life of many families to an entire house. “It is important that the world does not subsume to put pressure on Russia because of this terror,” he wrote on the X.
Sumy is always the goal of Russian attacks in the Moscow attack war on Ukraine, which has been going on for almost three years.
The head of the presidential office in Kiev, Andrij Jermak, said at Telegram that Russia has recently used drones with greater explosive power and metal elements. The aim of the Russians is to kill as many civilians as possible. Ukraine accuses Russia of terror and calls for the country to take responsibility ./Mau/dp/he