President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has instructed the military and diplomats to work on strengthening air defense systems to protect the Kharkiv, Sumy, and southern regions of Ukraine.
A 54-year-old man was killed and two women were injured as a result of the shelling by Russian troops of the Velyka Pysarivska community in the Okhtyrka district of the Sumy region.
On March 11, the Russian forces launched a missile attack on a school in the Sumy region while children were inside. The bomb shelter protected the schoolchildren.
Artillery shelling in the city of Seredyna-Buda, Shostka district, Sumy region, has damaged an educational institution, a kindergarten and more than 20 apartments.
A Russian Lancet drone has hit a residential building in Ukraine's northeastern Sumy region, killing a mother, two of her sons and two of their relatives.