SUMY: Two Russian ballistic missiles slammed into the center of the northern Ukrainian metropolis of Sumy on Sunday (Apr 13), killing 32 folks and wounding greater than 80 within the deadliest strike on Ukraine this yr, the Kyiv authorities mentioned.
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.
Lifeless our bodies have been strewn on the bottom in the course of a metropolis road close to a destroyed bus and burnt-out vehicles in a video posted by Zelenskyy on social media.
“Solely scoundrels can act like this. Taking the lives of abnormal folks,” he mentioned, noting that the assault had come on Palm Sunday when some folks have 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 traces within the east and south, earlier this month that killed 20 folks, together with 9 youngsters.
Sumy, with a inhabitants of round 1 / 4 of 1,000,000 and positioned simply over 25 km from the Russian border, grew to become a garrison metropolis when Kyiv’s forces launched an incursion into Russia final August that has since been largely repelled.
The individuals who have been caught in Sunday’s strike have been out on the road or inside vehicles, public transport and buildings when the missiles hit, Inside Minister Ihor Klymenko mentioned.
