Russia hits residential area in Sumy with a missile. Photo and video

Russian troops attacked the city of Sumy on the morning of August 17. The hit was recorded in the area of Svoboda Avenue: windows flew out in multi-storey buildings, and cars were burning.

Information about the victims is also established - one person sought medical help before 7 a.m. Details were revealed by head of the Sumy City Military Administration Oleksiy Drozdenko.

The official reported about the Russian strike on Sumy at 06:51.

"There was a hit in the area of Svoboda Avenue. A lot of damaged windows, quite a few burning cars. All relevant services are working. The search for victims continues. As of this hour, one person was assisted", the message reads.

Subsequently, the National Police reported that the number of injured had risen to two people. Two high-rise buildings and a shopping center building were damaged, in particular.

Drozdenko also added that the city has deployed an operational headquarters to eliminate the consequences of the enemy attack, where citizens can submit requests for damaged property.

The Sumy Regional Military Administration also confirmed the strike on the civilian infrastructure of the regional center. It was clarified that the Russians used a missile.

"Cars began to explode, people descended from the upper floors and tried to save the surviving cars. We were afraid of repeated explosions," a man living on Svoboda Avenue described the morning events in a conversation with Suspilne journalists.

The State Emergency Service clarified that the enemy hit the residential area of the regional center.

"As a result of the shelling, 10 civilian cars in the parking lot next to multi-storey residential buildings caught fire at once. In addition, the blast wave blew out windows, damaged the facades of residential buildings and other premises. The rescuers managed to eliminate the hotbeds of fire and prevent the fire from spreading to other vehicles. Everything was recorded", SES reported.

Sumy RMA reported that due to Russian shelling and liquidation of its consequences, traffic at the intersection of Svoboda Avenue and Ukrainian People's Republic Street (Kateryna Zelenko) was hampered as of 7 a.m.

We will remind you that on the evening of August 16, the Russians shelled the Dniprovskyi district of Kherson, wounding two people who were in their own house.

The occupants also attacked a police car in the Mykolaiv region with a drone. Three law enforcement officers were injured.

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