At least six killed in Russian drone attack on Sumy region as war in Ukraine reaches grim milestone

At least six people were killed, including a child, in a Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s northeastern region of Sumy, regional officials said on Tuesday.

Reuters reports twelve people were injured in the drone attack on a residential dormitory in the small town of Hlukhiv, the military administration of the Sumy region, which borders Russia, said on the Telegram messaging app.

At least six people have been killed by a Russian drone strike in Sumy region. A child is reported to be among the victims.

Russian security services have made two arrests after last week’s car bomb killing of a senior naval officer. Valery Trankovsky was killed in the Russian-occupied port city of Sevastopol.

Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, visited the eastern frontline towns of Pokrovsk and Kupiansk on Monday. “We are holding our positions,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un met on Monday with Russia’s natural resources minister in Pyongyang, state media reported, as visiting delegations from Moscow highlighted deepening ties.

UN undersecretary general for political affairs Rosemary DiCarlo denounced the rise in civilian casualties in Russia’s attack on Ukraine over the weekend, which involved 120 missiles and 90 drones, and caused significant damage to Ukraine’s power grid. “The targeted devastation of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure may make the coming winter the harshest since the start of the war,” she warned.