July 11, 2026, 4:16 p.mJuly 11, 2026, 4:16 p.m
The Russian military has killed at least four people by dropping glide bombs on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy. “There is also a girl among them,” said the mayor of Sumy, Artem Kobsar, in a video shared on his Telegram channel. Another seven people had to be taken to hospital with injuries. The video shows a bomb crater in the asphalt and a mangled minibus in a residential area. Local authorities warned of further attacks.
Russia frequently uses glide bombs in its war against Ukraine, which has now lasted more than four years. They are dropped from aircraft far from the front and then float several kilometers away towards the target. Although the weapons are guided, they are not considered particularly accurate. They repeatedly hit civilian objects.
Russia claims the four Ukrainian regions of Kherson, Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhia. Russian troops also occupy strips of land in the Ukrainian regions of Sumy and Kharkiv, which border Russia. Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin declared last year that he wanted to create a buffer zone there to protect the Russian civilian population from Ukrainian attacks. While the gains made by the Russian units there are minimal, the suffering of the Ukrainian civilian population has increased even further. (sda/dpa)