Sumy Oblast: explosion in Shostka results in casualties

IRYNA BALACHUK – SATURDAY, 23 JULY 2022, 11:00

An explosion took place in the city of Shostka in Sumy Oblast on the morning of 23 July. There are casualties.

Source: Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, head of the Sumy Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram

Quote from Zhyvytskyi: "An explosion took place in Shostka just after 09:00. There are casualties. Details to follow in due course."

Details: The head of the Sumy Oblast Military Administration said that the night in Sumy Oblast was relatively quiet, despite the air raid alarms. In the morning, however, Russian forces struck a number of hromadas [amalgamated territorial communities] in the oblast.

Just after 06:00, Russian occupying forces fired roughly 20 rounds of artillery on the Yunakivka hromada.

At 06:30, the Russians used mortars to fire 10 bombs on the Myropillia hromada.

Just after 07:00, Russian forces launched two grenades using a grenade launcher on the Bilopillia hromada and fired four bombs using a mortar on the outskirts of a village in the Khotin hromada.