Two consecutive Russian attacks on a medical centre in the north-eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy killed at least nine people on Saturday morning, officials said.
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00:00Two consecutive Russian strikes on a medical center in the Ukrainian city of Sumy killed
00:07at least nine people, according to local officials.
00:11The Ukrainian interior minister said the initial strike killed one person, but that Russia
00:16attacked again while patients and staff were evacuating.
00:23As well as the at least nine people killed in the two strikes, 12 people were seriously
00:28wounded.
00:31Sumy is around 32 kilometers away from Russia's Kursk region, where Ukrainian troops have
00:36been deployed for weeks in a bid to divert the Kremlin's military focus away from the
00:41front line in Ukraine.
00:46On the other side of the border in Russia, the Russian defense ministry said that air
00:50defenses overnight had shot down four Ukrainian drones over the Belgorod region and one over
00:55Kursk, both areas bordering Ukraine.