9 Killed After Russian Aircraft Bombed Residential Buildings In Sumy: Ukraine

Mumbai: At least nine people, including two children, have been killed after Russian aircraft bombed residential buildings in the Ukrainian city of Sumy on Monday night, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said.

The corridor from Sumy to Poltava is designed to evacuate civilians, including Chinese, Indians and other foreigners, but Ukraine’s deputy prime minister accused Russia of planning to obstruct the route.

Ukrainian rescue services said the airstrike took place late Monday in Sumy, near the Russian border, east of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.

“Enemy planes insidiously attacked apartment buildings,” they said on Telegram after arriving on the scene at 11:00 pm.

Sumy, 350 kilometres (218 mi) east of Kyiv, experienced several days of heavy fighting, but no other details about the attack were immediately available.

Earlier today, Russia announced a ceasefire in the midst of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine from 10 am (Moscow time) to provide humanitarian corridors in the cities of Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Mariupol for the movement of civilians and relief materials. This came after earlier efforts to implement a ceasefire failed.

Meanwhile, about 700 Indian students to are stranded in Sumy. The efforts to evacuate them are still on and India in the UNSC meeting said that it is deeply concerned that despite its repeated urgings to both Russia and Ukraine, the safe corridor for Indian students stranded in Sumy did not materialize.

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