Overview
- In Sumy, which came under a drone wave Wednesday morning, two preschool employees were confirmed dead and seven people were hurt, with a 52-year-old woman still hospitalized.
- Regional officials said air defenses detected about 10 Russian UAVs and shot down some, but two struck the central kindergarten and started a fire.
- Police evacuated the wounded and cleared the area as investigators, bomb disposal teams, and rescue crews worked the site and updated the toll.
- In Kharkiv’s Saltivskyi district, a separate drone strike injured two men aged 49 and 56 and damaged two garages and three cars.
- Another drone came down on the roof of a multi‑story building in Kharkiv’s Osnovianskyi district, and authorities reported no one sought medical care there.