As a result of the attack by Russian troops using a drone on a residential building in the Sumy district, a 64-year-old man was killed, and another person was injured. This was reported by the head of the region, Oleg Grigorov.
This is reported by Finway
Details of the attack on Mykolaiv community
According to Grigorov, the strike was carried out on the Mykolaiv rural community.
“The enemy attacked the Mykolaiv rural community. Unfortunately, as a result of the strike, a 64-year-old man was killed. He sustained extremely severe injuries,” Grigorov wrote on his Telegram channel.
During the same shelling, the 84-year-old mother of the deceased was injured. The woman is receiving necessary medical assistance.
Overall situation with attacks in Sumy region
According to regional authorities, in just the previous day, one civilian was killed due to Russian attacks in the Sumy region, and another 15 people were injured.
Russian military forces continuously use various types of weaponry — strike drones, missiles, aerial bombs, and multiple launch rocket systems — to attack Ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructure across all regions of the country.
Ukrainian authorities and international organizations classify these strikes as war crimes by the Russian Federation and emphasize their targeted nature. Systematic shelling of energy, utility, and medical facilities deprives the population of basic living conditions, which has the characteristics of genocidal actions.
Human rights defenders and genocide researchers emphasize that during the large-scale war, Russia is committing all types of crimes that may fall under the definition of genocide. Among them are public calls for the destruction of Ukrainians, targeted strikes on life-support systems, persecution and destruction of individuals with pro-Ukrainian positions in occupied territories, extermination of the intelligentsia, influence on children’s identity through education and deportations, as well as the destruction of cultural heritage.
The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted by the UN in 1948, obliges member states to prevent acts of genocide and punish them at any time. According to the document, genocide is considered to be actions aimed at the complete or partial destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.
The leadership of Russia denies that the Russian army deliberately targets civilian infrastructure and residential areas in Ukraine, despite numerous evidence of the destruction of hospitals, schools, energy and water facilities, and the deaths of civilians.