On the night of Nov. 18, a Russian missile struck a densely populated residential area in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy, killing 11 people, including a 9-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl, according to Ukrainian officials.
Ukraine’s State Emergency Service later reported that a total of 89 people were injured, including 11 children.
“Damaged houses, vehicles, broken glass everywhere… Sunday evening for the city of Sumy became hell, a tragedy brought to our land by Russia,” commented Volodymyr Artyukh, the head of Sumy’s military administration.
Around 400 residents were evacuated from a nine-story building struck by the missile.
Ukraine’s Air Force reported that Russia had attacked the Sumy Region with “two Iskander-M ballistic missiles launched from the Voronezh Region. and guided air missile Kh-59 from the airspace of the Kursk Region.”
Throughout the night, 10 separate attacks were reported across the Sumy Region by Russian forces, with at least 26 explosions recorded. The impacted areas included the communities of Sumy, Yunakivka, Myropillia, and Velykopysarivka.
The strike on Sumy came after a day in which Russia targeted Ukraine’s power grid in what Kyiv described as a “massive” attack involving 120 missiles and 90 drones, resulting in at least seven deaths. The attack also followed news reports that the U.S. had authorized Ukraine to use long-range U.S.-supplied weapons to strike military targets within Russia.
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