Russian strike kills three in Sumy, injures dozens more in Ukraine's northeast
A Russian missile and drone barrage on Sumy killed three and wounded roughly two dozen, hours before the NATO summit opened in The Hague, while Ukrainian strikes on Belgorod the same evening signalled a widening operational and information geography on both sides of the border.
Desk note: Monexus has run the strike in the register the wire used: three sources of slightly different stripes converge on the same numbers and the same geography, and has added a structural frame that the wire version does not carry. Russian state media is not cited, because none of the available inputs are Russian-state-sourced. Where the Ukrainian reporting carries detail the wire omits, the failed resuscitation, the mother and child, this publication has chosen to carry that detail forward rather than strip the story back to a casualty total.