Workers building fortifications in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine on May 2024. (George Ivanchenko / The Kyiv Independent)
Russian forces attacked 10 communities in Ukraine's northeastern Sumy Oblast in 30 separate attacks on June 22, the Sumy Oblast Military Administration reported.
The communities of Mykolaiv, Khotin, Yunakivka, Bilopillia, Krasnopillia, Hlukhiv, Esman, Shalyhyne, Seredyna-Buda, and Znob-Novhorodske were targeted.
Russian forces assailed the Sumy border with multiple weapons throughout the day, including drones, mortars, artillery, and explosives. A total of 90 explosions were recorded.
No casualties or damages to civilian infrastructure were reported.
Olena Goncharova is the Head of North America desk at The Kyiv Independent, where she has previously worked as a development manager and Canadian correspondent. She first joined the Kyiv Post, Ukraine's oldest English-language newspaper, as a staff writer in January 2012 and became the newspaper’s Canadian correspondent in June 2018. She is based in Edmonton, Alberta. Olena has a master’s degree in publishing and editing from the Institute of Journalism in Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. Olena was a 2016 Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellow who worked for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for six months. The program is administered by the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia.
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