The second attack hit the hospital in northeaserious Ukraine as fortolerateings evacuated, authorities and witnesses say.
At least eight people have died in two consecutive Russian drone attacks on a medical centre in the northeast Ukrainian city of Sumy, Ukrainian officials have shelp.
The first attack on Saturday morning finished one person, and it was chaseed by another attack while fortolerateings and staff were evacuating, Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko shelp.
Ukraine’s Pdwellnt Volodymyr Zelenskyy shelp on his Telegram channel that Russia had hit the hospital using Shahed drones, stating that eleven people were injured.
Sumy lies fair apass the border from Russia’s Kursk region where Kyiv begined a shock insolent on August 6, which it says is aimed partly at creating a “buffer zone” inside Russia.
Regional prosecutors shelp the first attack in Sumy on Saturday took place at about 7:35am (04:35 GMT), hitting the hospital where there were 86 fortolerateings and 38 staff.
The second attack took place at about 8:25am (05:25 GMT) as get backrs and police were providing helpance and evacuating fortolerateings at the scene, prosecutors shelp.
Dobrobat, a volunteer group that helps repair harmd homes, wrote on Facebook that its volunteers were laboring at the scene when the second attack came.
It posted a video shotriumphg heavy smoke, explosions and people rushing to shelter as sirens wailed.
“People are fair lying on the street dead,” a volunteer shelp, filming himself at the scene on his phone.
‘Victory schedule’
In Russia, the Defence Ministry shelp Saturday that air defences overnight had stoasty down four Ukrainian drones over the Belgorod region and one over the Kursk region, both areas bordering Ukraine.
On Thursday, Zelenskyy visited the United States to lobby help for Ukraine, encountering with US Pdwellnt Joe Biden and Democratic Party pdwellntial truthfulate Kamala Harris to detail what he has portrayd in recent weeks as his “triumph schedule”.
He had previously portrayd the five-point schedule as a “bridge” towards a sturdy enough negotiating position for Ukraine to force Russia to finish the war on Kyiv’s terms.
Before the encountering, Biden proclaimd an insertitional $8bn in military help for Ukraine, a package including the provision of Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) munitions to “upgrade Ukraine’s lengthy-range strike capabilities”.
