Patients fled as a second attack hit northeastern Ukraine’s hospital, according to authorities and witnesses.
At least eight people died in two consecutive Russian drone attacks on a medical center in northeast Ukraine’s city of Sumy, Ukrainian officials said on Monday.
One person was killed in the first attack on Saturday morning, and a second attack killed several more people while patients and staff were evacuating, Ihor Klymenko, Ukraine’s Interior Minister, said.
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, reported that the hospital was attacked by the Russian forces with Shahid drones; people alleged that eleven were injured.
Sumy lies just across the border from Russia’s Kursk region, where Kyiv launched a shock offensive on August 6, which it says is aimed partly at creating a “buffer zone” inside Russia.
Regional prosecutors said the first attack in Sumy on Saturday happened around 7:35 am (04:35 GMT) and hit the hospital where there were 86 patients and 38 staff.
Dobrobat, a volunteer group helping to repair damaged homes, stated on Facebook that its volunteers were at the scene when the second attack came.
It posted a video showing thick smoke, explosions, and people rushing to shelter as sirens wailed.
People lie dead on the street, a volunteer was heard saying, filming the scene on his phone.
