Sumy missile attack injured 90 people, including 17 children
A look back at the Russian strike on a hospital, a school and a residential area in the city of Sumy.
What did a Russian missile attack on Sumy do to the city's civilian life? As reported on 24 March 2025, the strike hit a hospital, a school and a residential area, and the day before the covered date of 25 March 2025 left 90 people injured, 17 of them children.
The targets were civilian sites: a medical facility, a place of education and homes. The injured included both adults and minors, and the reported toll of 17 children underlined how widely the attack reached into everyday spaces.
Sumy, the administrative centre of its oblast, had been in the war's line of fire since the full-scale invasion began on 24 February 2022. Russian forces did not capture the city then, though they took some settlements in the oblast, such as Trostianets.
The attack was catalogued among reported attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Russian re-occupation of Sumy Oblast.
