This was reported by the Sumy Regional Military Administration on Telegram, according to Ukrinform.

“As a result of enemy strikes in the Sumy region over the past 24 hours, two people were killed and two civilians were injured. Damage and destruction to private homes, non-residential buildings, and civilian infrastructure facilities were also recorded,” the statement said.

Specifically, in the Sumy community, a 59-year-old man was killed and a 50-year-old woman sustained injuries when an enemy drone struck a car.

In the Velykopysarivka community, a 51-year-old man was killed by an enemy drone strike.

In the Seredyno-Buda community, a 71-year-old woman was injured as a result of an enemy UAV strike.

Over the course of 24 hours, from the morning of August 15 to the morning of August 16, Russian troops carried out nearly 60 attacks on 26 settlements in 17 territorial communities of the region. The highest number of attacks was recorded in the Sumy and Shostka districts. The enemy used mortars, artillery, multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), FPV drones, UAVs, and guided aerial bombs.

In the Shostka community, civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged; in the Znob-Novhorod community, a private residential house, a farm building, and an educational facility were damaged; and in the Khutir-Mykhailivka community, a private house was damaged.

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In the Sumy community, private homes and an apartment building, as well as cars and a minibus, were damaged; in the Seredino-Buda community, a private home was damaged.

A private home in the Bilopilia community was completely destroyed. In the Shostka, Esman, Seredyno-Buda, and Znob-Novhorod communities, private homes were damaged as a result of earlier shelling; in the Seredyno-Buda, Khutir-Mykhailivka, and Znob-Novhorod communities, civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged.

As previously reported, late in the evening of August 15 in Sumy, an enemy drone attacked a civilian vehicle, killing a 59-year-old man and wounding his wife.

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