Two Russian missiles struck the heart of a northeastern Ukrainian city on Palm Sunday, killing at least 34 people, authorities said
Two Russian missiles struck the heart of a northeastern Ukrainian city on Palm Sunday, killing at least 34 people, authorities said.
The Russian ballistic missile strikes hit the center of Sumy “on Palm Sunday, as people were on their way to church,” according to Ukraine’s ministry of defense.
The strikes killed at least 34 people and injured 117 people — including a female infant born earlier in the year, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. One of the missiles hit a university building while the other exploded over a street, he said.
Emergency personnel were at the scene within minutes, and doctors were tending to the injured, Zelenskyy stated. Sixty-eight of the injured were taken to hospital, with eight of them in critical condition, he added.
“This was no accident — it was terror,” the defense ministry said.
“Only completely deranged scum can do something like this,” Zelenskyy said, according to a translation. He also shared a video of the scene, which showed bodies strewn around.
