Russia shells 8 communities in Sumy Oblast.

Russian forces shelled eight communities in Sumy Oblast on May 7, firing more than 109 rounds from various types of weapons, the Sumy Oblast Military Administration reported[1] on Facebook. According to the post, Russia shelled the Bilopillia, Krasnopillia, Velyka Pysarivka, Znob-Novhorodske, Esman, Seredyna-Buda, Nova Sloboda, and Yunakivka communities. Russian forces used mortars and artillery to target the Bilopillia community.

A private residence caught fire as a result of the shelling. The Bilopillia community in the central part of Sumy Oblast suffers usually from shelling the most, Taras Savchenko, acting head of the Sumy Oblast Military Administration said[2] on April 6. Russia also attacked a city of Seredyna-Buda with artillery.

At least two apartments in one high-rise building were damaged in the shelling as well as a warehouse. No casualties have been reported following the shelling. There was no information on the damage in the region at the time of the publication.

Sumy Oblast is located on Ukraine's northeastern border with Russia. It been the target of daily Russian shelling and attacks from across the border since parts of the oblast were liberated from Russian troops in early April 2022.

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Development manager, Canadian correspondent

Olena Goncharova is a development manager and Canadian correspondent for the Kyiv Independent.

She first joined the Kyiv Post, Ukraine's oldest English-language newspaper, as a staff writer in January 2012 and became the newspaper's Canadian correspondent in June 2018. She is based in Edmonton, Alberta. Olena has a master's degree in publishing and editing from the Institute of Journalism in Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv.

Olena was a 2016 Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellow who worked for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for six months.

The program is administered by the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia.

References

1. ^ reported (www.facebook.com)
2. ^ said (mediacenter.org.ua)
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