Russians hit five communities in Sumy Oblast

OLHA HLUSHCHENKO — FRIDAY, 16 SEPTEMBER 16 2022, 05:10

Russians have shelled 5 communities in Sumy Oblast over the past 24 hours, using various weapons.

Source: Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, Head of the Sumy Oblast Military Administration 

Details: The invaders hit the Velyka Pysarivka hromada [an administrative unit designating a town, village or several villages and their adjacent territories] with 120 mm mortars after 11:00. Five bombs from mortars and 10 shells from tubed artillery landed there.

After 14:00, the Bilopillia hromada was shelled from mortars and self-propelled guns; 8 strikes were reported.

In the afternoon, there were two attacks on the Krasnopillia hromada; a total of 29 mortar bombs hit that area.

There was mortar fire in Shalyhyne hromada around 16:00, with 12 strikes reported. 

There was a mortar attack on the Seredyna-Buda hromada at 16:30; 11 strikes (probably from a 120 mm mortar) were reported.

16 more strikes occurred around 21:00.

According to preliminary information, an electrical substation was damaged, and there is no power in the city of Seredyna-Buda.

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