Russian attack on Ukraine city of Sumy kills three, injures 25
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The attack on Ukraine's north-eastern city of Sumy killed three people and injured 25, including children.
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KYIV – A Russian artillery attack on Ukraine’s north-eastern city of Sumy on June 3 killed three people and injured 25, including children, the city council and the Health Ministry said.
A Reuters video showed rescuers and police assessing damage on a street littered with debris.
One body, covered with a sheet, lay prone near cars peppered with splinters.
The country’s Health Ministry said 25 people sought medical attention.
“Eight of the wounded are in serious condition, and three of them are children,” the ministry said in a statement.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said at least one rocket fired from a multiple rocket launcher had failed to detonate and lodged itself in an apartment building.
Commenting on the attack, he said on his Telegram channel: “That’s all one needs to know about the Russian wish to end this war.”
On June 2, Russia told Ukraine at peace talks in Istanbul
Ukraine has repeatedly rejected the Russian conditions as tantamount to surrender.
“It is obvious that... without decisive steps by the United States, Europe and everyone in the world who has power, Putin will not... agree to a ceasefire,” Mr Zelensky said.
Police officers working at the site of an artillery attack by Russia on the Ukrainian city of Sumy on June 3.
PHOTO: REUTERS
The attack on Sumy, a city of more than 255,000 located just 30km from the Russian border, follows a surprise June 1 Ukrainian drone attack
Earlier on June 3, the administration of Ukraine’s eastern region of Donetsk also said four civilians were killed in separate artillery attacks on four locations overnight.
Russia denies deliberately attacking civilians in what the Kremlin calls its “special military operation” in Ukraine. REUTERS
