A Russian rocket attack targeted the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy on Tuesday, killing at least three people and injuring 25, officials said. The assault was condemned by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who stated that it demonstrated that Moscow has no intention of ending the three-year conflict. The attack occurred a day after direct peace talks in Istanbul failed to bring the three-year conflict to an end. Local authorities said the barrage of rockets struck apartment buildings and a medical facility in the center of Sumy.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s secret services said they struck again inside Russia, two days after a spectacular Ukrainian drone attack on air bases deep inside the country.
A vital bridge to Crimea
The Ukrainian Security Service, known by its acronym SBU, claimed it damaged the foundations of the Kerch Bridge linking Russia and illegally annexed Crimea — a key artery for Russian military supplies in the war.The SBU said it detonated 1,100 kilograms (2,400 pounds) of explosives on the seabed overnight,in an operation that took several months to set up. According to the SBU, it was the third Ukrainian attack on the bridge since Russia invaded its neighbor in February 2022. “The bridge is now effectively in an emergency condition,” the SBU claimed.
It said no civilians were killed or injured in the operation. The claims could not be independently verified. Traffic across the Kerch Bridge was halted for three hours early Tuesday but reopened at 9 a.m., official Russian social media channels said. At 3:20 p.m., it remained closed for a second time. Zelenskyy appeals to Moscow for pressure. The Ukrainian president called the attack on Sumy a “completely deliberate” strike on civilians.“ That’s all you need to know about Russia’s ‘desire’ to end this war,” the Ukrainian president wrote on social media.Zelenskyy appealed for global pressure and “decisive action from the United States, Europe and everyone in the world who holds power.” Without it, he said, Russian President Vladimir Putin “will not agree even to a ceasefire.” The war has killed more than 12,000 Ukrainian civilians, according to the United Nations, as well as tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides along the roughly 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line where the war of attrition grinds on despite U.S.-led efforts to broker a peace deal.
A stunning attack by a Ukrainian drone Though Russia has a bigger army and more economic resources than Ukraine, the Ukrainian drone attack over the weekend damaged or destroyed more than 40 warplanes at air bases deep inside Russia, Ukrainian officials said, touting it as a serious blow to the Kremlin’s strategic arsenal and military prestige.
Ukraine targets key bridge to Crimea as Russian rockets kill 3
