A firefighter works on the website of a Russian drone strike, amid Russia’s assault on Ukraine, within the Sumy area, Ukraine, June 22, 2026. Photograph: State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Sumy area/Handout by way of Reuters
A Russian drone strike on the town of Sumy in northeastern Ukraine killed three members of the identical household, together with a 13-year-old boy and his father, and wounded one other two, a regional official mentioned Monday (June 22, 2026).
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Russia has pounded civilian areas of Ukraine with drones and missiles because it launched its all-out invasion of its neighbour greater than 4 years in the past, and a United Nations tally says greater than 16,000 civilians have died within the conflict.
U.S.-led peace efforts have didn’t cease the preventing. The Sumy assault hit a house and killed a 36-year-old man, his 13-year-old son and a 73-year-old girl who was the mom of the person’s associate, based on Oleh Hryhorov, the top of the regional navy administration. The person’s associate and 10-year-old son had been wounded, he mentioned.
The variety of civilian casualties in Russian assaults has jumped lately, based on the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, as Moscow’s forces wrestle to realize momentum on the battlefield.
Not less than 274 civilians had been killed, and 1,763 had been injured in Ukraine in Could — the best month-to-month whole of civilian casualties since April 2022, it mentioned earlier this month. Most casualties are in cities removed from the entrance line, it mentioned.
A Russian nighttime drone strike additionally killed a lady and wounded three individuals, together with an 11-year-old boy, within the southeastern Ukrainian metropolis of Zaporizhzhia, regional head Ivan Fedorov mentioned.
In whole, Russia launched 88 long-range assault drones and one ballistic missile in a single day, Ukraine’s air drive mentioned, with air defences taking pictures down or jamming 79 of the drones.
Ukraine, in the meantime, fired many extra drones towards Russia and territories it controls, based on the Russian Defence Ministry, as Kyiv sustained its long-range marketing campaign in opposition to oil amenities, navy transport and infrastructure.
The Russian Defence Ministry mentioned Monday (June 22) its forces intercepted 301 Ukrainian drones in the course of the night time over a number of Russian areas, the illegally annexed Crimea peninsula, the Azov Sea and the Black Sea.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin mentioned 84 Ukrainian drones focusing on the Russian capital had been shot down. He did not say whether or not the assault brought on any injury, however all 4 Moscow airports quickly halted flights within the wake of the assault.
Additionally, some residential buildings had been evacuated in Russia’s Vladimir area, east of Moscow and the Tula area south of the capital on account of the assault, native authorities reported.
Printed – June 22, 2026 04:50 pm IST