The aftermath of the strike on Sumy. Photo: The Ukrainian State Emergency Service
At least 101 people have been injured in a Russian missile strike on the city of Sumy, in northeastern Ukraine, the regional military administration announced on Tuesday.
Twenty-three children were among the injured, the statement read, adding that Ukrainian investigators had begun looking into whether the attack constituted a war crime.
Ihor Kalchenko, the head of the Sumy regional administration, said several multi-storey buildings, a medical establishment and a school had been damaged in the attack. The pupils at the school had already been moved into a bomb shelter by the time the missile struck and escaped injury, regional Governor Volodymyr Artyukh added.
Kalchenko said emergency response centres were being set up at two kindergartens in the city, where representatives from Sumy City Hall would be available to advise those affected by the attack and to accept applications for the authorities to examine the extent of damage to housing, while the police will also be on hand to take statements.
Kalchenko also said that locals whose homes had been damaged in the attack would be able to spend the night in the kindergarten.
Six people were killed over the weekend in attacks on the Ukrainian cities of Zaporizhzhia and Kyiv, as Russian forces continued to pummel the country, despite delegations from Ukraine, Russia and the United States meeting for ceasefire talks in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh this week.
