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Death toll in Russian drone attack on apartment building in Ukraine’s Sumy rises to three

The number of people who were killed in a Russian drone attack on a five-storey residential building in Ukraine’s Sumy has risen to three, Mayor Oleksandr Lysenko reported via Telegram.

Moreover, 21 people are injured, four are taken to hospitals. A day of mourning is declared in Sumy on 4 July.

The Russian army launched a drone attack on the centre of Sumy in the afternoon of 3 July. The Sumy regional administration said that four Shahed 136 drones had struck the city, damaging an administrative building and two multi-storey residential buildings.

On 27 June, Russian forces launched a strike on Ukraine’s Kramatorsk, which killed 13 people, including a 17-year-old girl and two 14-year-old sisters. Moreover, Ukrainian novelist Victoria Amelina died from the severe wounds she sustained in the attack. In addition, 61 civilians were injured, including an eight-month-old baby.

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