Russian drone hits grain lorry in Sumy Oblast, killing driver

The Russians used a drone to attack a lorry that was being loaded with grain in the Sad hromada in Sumy Oblast on Monday 16 March, killing the driver. [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]

Source: Oleh Hryhorov, Head of Sumy Oblast Military Administration

Quote: "Another loss in Sumy Oblast. A 40-year-old man was killed in the Sad hromada. He had gone there to load grain."

Details: Hryhorov reported that the Russians deliberately hit the cab of the lorry, where the driver was sitting , with a drone.

"After being hit, it caught fire. Sadly, the man was killed," Hryhorov said.

He expressed his condolences to the family and loved ones of the deceased.

Background: Earlier, a Russian drone attacked a civilian man on motorcycle in the Velyka Pysarivka hromada, and a 48-year-old local resident who sustained severe injuries in the strike later died.

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