34 Killed in Russian Missile Attack on Ukraine’s City of Sumy, Kyiv Says

A Kremlin spokesman reiterated the claim that Russian forces carry out strikes ‘solely on military and paramilitary targets.’

Damaged vehicles at the site of a Russian missile strike, in Sumy, Ukraine, on April 13, 2025. Stringer/Reuters

Thirty-four people were killed and scores more injured in a Russian missile attack on April 13 in Ukraine’s northeastern city of Sumy, Ukrainian officials have said.

“Only scoundrels can act like this, taking the lives of ordinary people,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in the aftermath of the reported attack.