The border region has faced near-constant strikes as Moscow seeks to expand what it describes as a buffer zone
2-MIN READ2-MINReutersPublished: 6:54am, 4 Jul 2026A massive Russian glide bomb strike on the centre of the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy killed at least four people, including a child, on Friday and injured 27, Regional Governor Oleh Hryhorov said.
Other areas in Sumy region and in southeastern Ukraine, closer to the front lines, also came under Russian attack, killing a total of six people.
“At the epicentre of the strike – a high-rise apartment building, a shop and a street,” Hryhorov wrote on Telegram of the strike in Sumy. “There were a great many people. Children.”
Hryhorov said the dead included a five-year-old child and her mother.
The injured were being treated in hospitals, he said, including a 13-year-old in serious condition.
President Volodymyr Zelensky posted pictures of the aftermath of the attack, including medical workers attending to the injured, a strip of pavement covered in blood along with two abandoned sandals and a building reduced to rubble.
