Sumy Oblast: Russia launches 40 shells, bombs and grenades on territory near Ukraine’s border

UKRAINSKA PRAVDA — SATURDAY, 29 OCTOBER 2022, 00:41

Russian forces deployed mortars, grenade launchers and artillery to attack three hromadas in Sumy Oblast on 28 October, but did not cause further destruction. There were no casualties. [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a city, town or village and its adjacent territories - ed.]

Source: Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, Head of the Sumy Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram

Details: Russian forces deployed artillery (likely 152-mm calibre) to shell the Esman hromada; six explosions rang out in the hromada.

The Russians attacked a village on the Ukrainian-Russian border, in the Bilopillia hromada, with 15 mortar-launched bombs.

The Znob-Novhorod hromada was hit nine times from a self-propelled artillery system and sustained further 10 strikes from a grenade launcher.

Zhyvytskyi reported that the Russians launched a total of 40 shells, bombs and grenades on Sumy Oblast on 28 October.

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