Russians shell Sumy Oblast a dozen times: a woman injured, a forest caught fire and a school was destroyed

UKRAINSKA PRAVDA – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2022, 00:30

The Russian occupying forces shelled six communities of the Sumy region with various types of weapons during the day. A 68-year-old woman received shrapnel wounds in the Seredyno-Budskyi hromada (an administrative unit designating a town, village or several villages and their adjacent territories - ed.) as a result of a mortar attack, and is now in hospital.

Source: Dmytro Zhyvytskyy, Head of Oblast Military Administration 

Details: The Russian Federation launched eleven mines in the Seredyno-Budskiiy hromada. Two private houses and a power line were damaged in the village of Novovolodymyrikva. 

In addition, the Russian occupying forces fired mortars at a village in the Esman hromada.

Russian forces fired on the territory of the Yunakivska hromada twice: once with artillery, the second time with mortars. A power line was damaged.

In the Shalygyn hromada, there were two mortar attacks and one attack from a Grad multiple rocket launcher. A forest caught fire, and a school, a kindergarten, the village council building, a water tower, and a monument were damaged in the village of Khodyne. There was damage to village streets and vegetable gardens. Two residential buildings and a power line were damaged in another village of the hromada.

The Russians dropped fifteen mines on the village of Atynske in the Bilopilska hromada.

There were eleven "incomings" from artillery in the village of Malushyno in the Putyvl hromada.

In total, there were seven mortar attacks (72 "incomings"), two artillery attacks (31 "incomings") and one from a Grad multiple rocket launcher (40 "incomings") during the day. A total of 143 "incomings" in these hromadas.

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