The death toll from the Russian forces’ airstrikes in the evening and throughout the night on 7 March in Sumy reached 22 as the rescuers retrieved a boy’s body from the rubble.
Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, the Head of Sumy Military Administration, announced that during the evacuation of civilians there was shooting on the outskirts of the city, although the buses were not being shot at and the ‘humanitarian corridor’ to leave Sumy is operational.