Russian bomb strikes elderly home in Sumy

During a daytime strike on the northern city of Sumy a Russian guided bomb hit a five-storey building, housing about 211 elderly people, killing one and injuring 13, regional and military officials said.

Rescuers helped the residents, many of whom appeared to be bedridden, to leave the premises, a video filmed by emergency services showed.

Moscow has repeatedly attacked the Sumy region, which borders Russia's Kursk region, area of a major Ukrainian incursion in which Kyiv says it seized over 100 settlements.

Russia said to have captured a Ukrainian village over the past day, while Ukraine stated on the same day that it had attacked Russia's important targets over the past 24 hours, according to their latest updates on the conflict.

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the Russian military has controlled the village of Georgiyevka in Donetsk. Meanwhile, the Russian army has enhanced its tactics across multiple fronts and secured advantageous forward positions.

In the Kursk direction, the Russian forces continued their offensive operations and defeated various Ukrainian attacks, according to the ministry.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that Ukrainian forces had reduced the potential of Russian troops to launch attacks in the Donetsk region on the eastern front of the more than 2 1/2-year-old war.

Zelenskiy, speaking in his nightly video address, also said that Ukraine's incursion into Russia's southern Kursk region, launched last month, had obliged the Russian military to divert 40,000 troops to the area.

The president also said that one person had died in a Russian attack on an elderly people's residence in Ukraine's northern Sumy region, an area subject to frequent Russian assaults.

In the Kharkiv direction, Russian forces attempted to launch attacks on the Ukrainian position at Volchansk, said the Ukrainian report, noting that fighting continued across multiple fronts, with the Pokrovsk and Kurakhove areas witnessing intense clashes.