Russia attacked a border village in Sumy Oblast with KAB bombs on August 8, killing a 22-year-old man and his six-year-old sister, Governor Volodymyr Artyukh said on television.
Sumy Oblast is the target of daily Russian border attacks. This week, the attacks intensified after Ukraine invaded Russia’s Kursk Oblast from there.
The airstrike targeted the village of Mohrytsia, which is located about six kilometers southwest of the border with Kursk Oblast.
The victims were killed in a schoolyard, Artiukh said, adding that their family had refused to leave the village just a day earlier. Two other people were injured.
Sumy Oblast authorities announced on August 7 the mandatory evacuation of about 6,000 residents as Russia increased air traffic near border areas.
“Smy Oblast has never experienced such a number of airstrikes per day,” Artiukh said, calling the number of attacks “unprecedented.”
Russia launched an invasion of Sumy Oblast in early 2022, but Ukraine ousted Moscow’s forces in April of the same year.
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