Enemy aircraft bombed the outskirts of Sumy and Okhtyrka - Head of Regional State Administration

Olha Hlushchenko - Thursday, 10 March 2022, 02:09

Russian aircraft bombed the outskirts of Sumy and Okhtyrka on the night of 10 March.

Source: Head of Zhytomyr Regional State/Military Administration Dmytro Zhyvytskyy on Telegram

Verbatim: "Russian enemy aircraft bombed the outskirts of Sumy and the village of Bytytsya".

Details: Dmytro Zhyvytskyy said that the attack took place at 00:40.

Details are being clarified.

The Head of Regional Military Administration also said that "Russian aircraft bombed residential areas again at 1:30 on 10 March" in Okhtyrka.

In addition, Dmytro Zhyvytskyy reported that Russian aircraft continue to bomb Okhtyrka repeatedly every day and every night.

The city's infrastructure has been completely destroyed. Human casualties are being counted.

Russian artillery forces shelled the former Elektrobutprylad plant (a Ukrainian electric appliances company) in Trostyanets. The shelling killed three civilians, including a minor.

Boromlya, a village northeast of Pershotravneve in Ukraine's Sumy region remains under Russian forces' control.

Velyka Pysarivka, an urban-type settlement in the Sumy region, was bombed on 9 March. Power lines there have been cut off. A 13-year-old boy and two women were killed in the artillery shelling.

The Russian Air Force struck PJSC UKRNAFTA (Ukrainian oil and natural gas extraction company, the largest producer of oil and gas in the country) in the village Mala Pavlivka. An oil tank caught fire as a result.

Background: Ukrainian territorial defence fighters destroyed about 20 units of Russian military machinery near Sumy.