On 9 September, Russian forces carried out a targeted drone strike on a shopping and entertainment centre in Sumy. Three people were killed in the attack and two others were injured. The shopping and entertainment centre building was damaged, and its structural elements and floors were destroyed.
Briefly about the main points
- A drone carried out a targeted attack on the shopping centre in Sumy.
- Three people were killed as a result of the attack.
- Two more people were injured.
- The centre’s building sustained damage and the floors were destroyed.
- In July, the UN verified 20 civilian deaths in the Sumy region.
Casualties amongst the civilian population amid systematic attacks on the Sumy region
Three people were killed in the attack and two others were injured. Monitoring UN mission The Ukrainian Human Rights Ombudsman verified that 20 civilians had been killed and 152 wounded in the Sumy region in July. Across Ukraine that month, rockets and long-range drones were the main cause of civilian casualties.
In early September National Police reported that, over the course of a single day, Russian troops carried out 34 attacks on 27 settlements in the Sumy region, using, amongst other things, various types of drones.
The shopping and leisure centre building has been damaged
The strike damaged the shopping and entertainment centre: structural elements and floor slabs were destroyed. This is not the first recorded strike on a retail facility in the city: on 3 April, Sumy City Council reported that a drone had struck a shopping centre in the city centre, following which the number of casualties rose to five.
These two incidents relate to different attacks. The available data do not provide any grounds for linking them in terms of the type of drone or the way it was used.
