Escalating Tensions: Two Russian Strikes on Ukrainian Medical Center Lead to Eight Deaths

Two Russian attacks on a medical center in Sumy, Ukraine, killed eight people on Saturday. The second strike happened during evacuation efforts. Ukrainian forces intercepted most of the drones and missiles launched by Russia. Russian regions bordering Ukraine reported overnight drone attacks and shelling.

Two consecutive Russian attacks on a medical center in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy killed at least eight people on Saturday morning, officials confirmed.

The first strike resulted in one fatality, and as evacuation efforts were underway, a second attack occurred, Ukraine's Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko stated. Sumy officials noted Shahed drones were employed in the strike. Oleksii Drozdenko, head of the Sumy City Military administration, mentioned that eleven more individuals were injured. Sumy is located about 20 miles (32 kilometers) from Russia's Kursk region, where since August 6, Ukrainian troops have been stationed to divert Russian focus from Ukraine's front lines.

Ukraine's air force reported the interception of 69 out of 73 Russian drones launched overnight, along with two of four missiles. Kyiv's city authorities said that approximately 15 drones were shot down over the capital and its suburbs.

In Kryvyi Rih, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's hometown, local officials reported the discovery of a man's body under the ruins of an administrative building struck by a Russian missile on Friday, increasing the death count to four.

Russia's Defense Ministry indicated that five Ukrainian drones were shot down overnight in the Belgorod and Kursk regions, adjacent to Ukraine.

In another incident, one person was killed and two others wounded in Ukrainian shelling of Shebekino, a Russian border city, according to Vyacheslav Gladkov, Belgorod's regional governor.

(With inputs from agencies.)