SUMY: Two Russian ballistic missiles slammed into the guts of the northern Ukrainian metropolis of Sumy on Sunday (Apr 13), killing 32 individuals and wounding greater than 80 within the deadliest strike on Ukraine this yr, the Kyiv authorities stated.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy demanded a troublesome worldwide response towards Moscow over the assault, which got here with US President Donald Trump’s push to quickly finish the warfare struggling to make a breakthrough.
Useless our bodies had been strewn on the bottom in the course of a metropolis avenue close to a destroyed bus and burnt-out automobiles in a video posted by Zelenskyy on social media.
“Solely scoundrels can act like this. Taking the lives of strange individuals,” he stated, noting that the assault had come on Palm Sunday when some individuals had been going to church.
Russian authorities didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark.
It adopted a missile strike within the central Ukrainian metropolis of Kryvyi Rih, Zelenskyy’s hometown and much from the bottom warfare’s entrance strains within the east and south, earlier this month that killed 20 individuals, together with 9 kids.
Sumy, with a inhabitants of round 1 / 4 of 1,000,000 and situated simply over 25 km from the Russian border, turned a garrison metropolis when Kyiv’s forces launched an incursion into Russia final August that has since been largely repelled.
The individuals who had been caught in Sunday’s strike had been out on the road or inside automobiles, public transport and buildings when the missiles hit, Inside Minister Ihor Klymenko stated.
