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Massive Russian bomb attack kills at least 4 in Ukraine’s Sumy

A massive Russian ⁠glide bomb strike on the centre of the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy killed at least four people, including a child, on…

By Samantha Johnson / July 3, 2026

A 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.

The interior of a damaged flat is seen in an apartment building hit by a Russian air strike on Friday. Photo: Reuters
The interior of a damaged flat is seen in an apartment building hit by a Russian air strike on Friday. Photo: Reuters

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.

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