Sumy region: aggressors have bombed Okhtyrka again - Head of Regional Military Administration

Olha Hlushchenko - Saturday, 26 March 2022, 00:55

Dmytro Zhyvytskyy, Head of the Sumy Regional State/Military Administration, has said that heavy fighting was taking place in the Sumy region. The aggressors have once more bombed the town of Okhtyrka.

Source: Dmytro Zhyvytskyy in a video address

Quote: "The situation remains tense. Fighting continues. This is [happening] in Konotop district - an active phase… in Okhtyrka district, in Sumy district…

Unfortunately, shelling continues in the suburbs and in the city of Sumy.

Okhtyrka town was bombed this afternoon (25 March - ed.). There was yet another big explosion caused by a bomb, and once again it brought great destruction."

Unfortunately, Okhtyrka is suffering very serious losses."

"Sadly, during the fighting in the Trostyanets community, the gas pipeline was damaged and there is a risk new subscribers might get cut off from gas supply…

Subsequently, there are people who have been left without power and without communication…"

Background: An airstrike on the town of Okhtyrka killed at least 3 civilians on 14 March.

On the night of 24 March, Russian troops fired rockets at residential areas in the town of Okhtyrka in the Sumy region, killing civilians.