Russian strikes on medical centre kill 9 people in Ukrainian city of Sumy

Two consecutive Russian attacks connected a aesculapian centre successful the northeastern Ukrainian metropolis of Sumy connected Saturday killed astatine slightest 9 people, officials said.

The archetypal onslaught killed 1 person. Russia attacked again portion patients and unit were evacuating, said Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko.

Local officials successful Sumy said Shahed drones were utilized successful the attack. Twenty-one different radical were wounded, Sumy Acting Mayor Artem Kobzar said.

Sumy lies immoderate 32 kilometres from Russia’s Kursk region, wherever Ukrainian troops person made a astonishment incursion since Aug. 6 successful a bid to divert the Kremlin’s subject focus away from the beforehand enactment successful Ukraine.

In Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, a Russian airstrike connected the colony of Slatyne connected Saturday killed 3 radical and wounded 3 more, Kharkiv determination Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said.

Syniehubov besides said 1 idiosyncratic was killed successful a drone onslaught successful the adjacent colony of Kozacha Lopan.

Ukraine’s aerial unit said it changeable down 69 of 73 Russian drones launched overnight into Saturday arsenic good arsenic 2 of the 4 missiles. City authorities successful Kyiv said astir 15 drones had been changeable down implicit the Ukrainian superior and its outskirts.

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In Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s location city, section officials said Saturday that a man’s assemblage was recovered nether the rubble of an administrative gathering deed by a Russian rocket connected Friday, bringing the decease toll from that onslaught to four.

In Russia, the Defense Ministry said Saturday that aerial defenses overnight had changeable down 4 Ukrainian drones implicit the Belgorod portion and 1 implicit the Kursk region, some areas bordering Ukraine.

One idiosyncratic was killed successful Ukrainian shelling of the Russian borderline metropolis of Shebekino connected Saturday, Belgorod determination Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said. Two different radical were wounded.