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Sumy

[soo-mee, soo-mi]

noun

  1. a city in northeastern Ukraine, northwest of Kharkiv.



Sumy

/ ˈsumi /

noun

  1. a city in Ukraine, on the River Pysol: site of early Slav settlements. Pop: 294 000 (2005 est)

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In a post on X, he said that preliminary reports indicated train staff and passengers were at the site of the strike in the city of Shostka, in the Sumy region.

From BBC

An entire family - a married couple and their two young sons - have been killed in an overnight Russian drone attack in Ukraine's north-eastern Sumy region, local officials have said.

From BBC

Meanwhile, officials said two civilians were killed in Ukraine's Sumy region when a Russian glide bomb struck a village near the border.

From BBC

The Poltava, Sumy and Chernihiv regions were affected, Zelensky stated in a post on Telegram.

From BBC

Zelensky said he had also argued about the percentages on the White House map that showed Russian control in a number of Ukrainian regions, ranging from 99% of Luhansk and 76% of Donetsk in Donbas; 73% of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson in the south-east; 4% in Kharkiv in the north-east; and 1% in Sumy and Mykolaiv.

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