The number of civilians killed in the shelling of the center of the Ukrainian city of Sumy by the Russian army has reached 31, the Ukrainian Ministry of Emergency Situations said, Report informs.
It was noted that 84 people were injured as a result of the incident.
According to Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko, 2 of the dead and 7 of the injured are children.
A Russian ballistic missile strike killed multiple people in the city center of Sumy on the morning of Palm Sunday, Sumy Mayor Artem Kobzar said on April 13, Report informs via The Kyiv Independent.
There are 21 confirmed dead and at least 20 injured at the time of publication, Ukraine’s Emergency Services said.
Ukraine’s Air Force warned of a ballistic missile threat in Sumy Oblast at 10:17 am. By 10:52 am, Kobzar announced that the city had been hit with “many dead” as a result of a missile strike.
"Enemy missiles hit an ordinary city street, ordinary life: houses, educational institutions, cars on the street... And this is on a day when people go to church: Palm Sunday," President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on his Telegram channel after the attack.
"Without pressure on the aggressor, peace is impossible. Talks have never stopped ballistic missiles and air bombs. We need the kind of attitude towards Russia that a terrorist deserves," he added.
Videos circulating on social media after the attack show bodies strewn across the street, and several vehicles, including a bus, having suffered heavy damage from the attack, with one car engulfed in flames.
