What the Sumy missile attack of 24 March 2025 left behind
A look back at a Russian strike on a hospital, a school and a residential area in Sumy that injured 90 people.
What did the Russian missile attack on Sumy leave behind? Looking back at 25 March 2025, the day after the strike, the immediate toll was already clear: 90 people had been injured, including 17 children.
As reported at the time, the missiles hit a hospital, a school and a residential area in the city on 24 March 2025. Civilian buildings of the kind that serve everyday public life were among the targets, and the number of children among the injured drew particular attention.
Sumy is the administrative centre of Sumy Oblast. Since the full-scale invasion began on 24 February 2022, Russian forces have occupied parts of the oblast, taking settlements such as Trostianets. They did not manage to capture the city of Sumy itself.
The attack on 24 March 2025 belonged to a wider pattern of strikes on civilians during the invasion. For Sumy, it meant that on 25 March 2025 the city was dealing with the aftermath of an attack on a hospital, a school and homes, with dozens of injured people.
