A Ukrainian flag flies outside a building in the city centre damaged by Russian shelling, Okhtyrka, Sumy Region, northeastern Ukraine. (Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
Russian forces shelled 10 communities in Ukraine's northeastern Sumy Oblast on Nov. 3, causing over 115 explosions, regional military administration reported.
The communities of Bilopillia, Krasnopillia, Khotin, Velyka Pysarivka, Putyvl, Druzhbivka, Seredyna-Buda, Znob-Novhorodske, Hlukhiv, and Esman were targeted. Krasnopillia community was attacked the most throughout the day with more than 40 explosions recorded.
There were no casualties or damage to civilian infrastructure.
Various weapons were used in the attacks, including mines, mortars, missiles, and artillery, according to the Ukrainian military.
Sumy Oblast has been under daily Russian shelling since the Ukrainian army liberated it in April 2022.
Olena Goncharova is the Special Correspondent for 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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