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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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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.

From BBC

In areas where the White House suggests 1% of a region is under Russian control, that may reflect only that the Russians have some limited presence, as in Mykolaiv in the south, or where they have largely been repelled, as in Sumy in the north.

From BBC

And although Russia does hold some pockets of land in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions, Ukraine is still in control of an estimated 6,600 sq km of Donbas.

From BBC

On Friday alone, hours before the summit began, Russian forces struck a civilian market in the Ukrainian city of Sumy.

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