Russians fire with "Grads" for more than an hour on Sumy region

DENYS KARLOVSKYI - SATURDAY, 21 MAY 2022, 16:06

As of 15:30, for more than an hour, Russian occupiers fired from "Grad" multiple rocket launchers at settlements in the Sumy region.

Source: Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, Head of Sumy Oblast Military Administration; State Border Guard Service of Ukraine

Quote from Zhyvytskyi: "For more than an hour, the enemy has been firing rockets (from multiple rocket launcher systems - Ukrainska Pravda) from its territory at Sumy Oblast."

Details: Border guards reported that Russian invaders were firing from Grad multiple rocket launchers. Ukrainian defenders counted about a dozen shellings.

Background: 

• The Head of Sumy Oblast Military Administration claims that at about 9:00 a.m., Russian occupiers fired artillery at the Bilopilska amalgamated territorial community (hromada) from the territory of Belgorod Oblast [in Russia -ed.].
• On 20 May, Russians carried out four strikes in the border areas of Chernihiv and Sumy regions.
• In the evening of 19 May, the Russian occupiers attacked the Sumy region with self-propelled guns, mortars, submachine guns, and small arms.
• On the night of 18 May, Russian invaders fired from "Grad" multiple rocket launchers. In the afternoon of 18 May, the Russians fired five more artillery shells at the Sumy region and two at the Chernihiv region.