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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sumy, Ukraine – 15 April 2025
1. Various of Oleksandr Zaicev, acting head of intensive care unit, attending patient
2. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Oleksandr Zaicev, acting head of the intensive care unit: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT 3
"I can’t understand these people, the people who send these missiles. I don’t understand them. In the 21st century, there are people who like to kill other people. I’m just shocked. Emotions are overwhelming me, especially during this period (of the attack). It’s still incomprehensible to me how a reasonable person can do this. There are simply no words."
3. Various of Medical workers working
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sumy, Ukraine – 15 April 2025
4. Hospital ward
5. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Hennadii Smolarov, injured in Russian attack: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT6++
“I was riding in a trolleybus when there was a second strike. I was standing by the window and was hit by a blow. I don’t know if it was, a Shahed (drone) or what? I don’t know yet. And now my arm doesn’t work and my skull is broken.”
6. Various of woman tending to patient
STORYLINE:
Medical personnel in the Ukrainian town of Sumy are still dealing with the aftermath of Russia’s worst attack this year, which targeted the city in back-to-back missile strikes, killing 35 people and injuring more than 100 others.
"I can’t understand these people, the people who send these missiles," Oleksandr Zaicev, acting head of the local hospitall’s intensive care unit, told the Associated Press. "In the 21st century, there are people who like to kill other people. I’m just shocked."
Maryna Illiashenko and her 13-year old son, Kyrylo, heard the sound of that first blast ricochet across the center city as they waited for a bus.
They were headed to visit his grandmother, but the teenager was more excited about wrestling practice later that afternoon.
Undeterred, they boarded the bus when it arrived a few minutes later.
One stop later, the second missile crashed a few feet from from the vehicle, scorching nearby cars, burning passengers alive, killing the bus driver and causing shrapnel to rain down.
Three fragments tore through Kyrylo’s scalp and scratched Maryna’s face.
The pair were unable to open the door from the inside.
"Then, while I was thinking about what to do next, I looked up and my child had already jumped through the doorframe and was opening the door from the outside," said Maryna.
"He opened it, and there were people lying in front of me. He helped them up first and then let me out. He was very scared because my face was covered in blood,” she continued.
Residents say there has been an uptick in attacks on Sumy in recent weeks, though none as bloody as Sunday’s airstrike, which targeted a busy intersection.
The attack in Sumy, which had a prewar population of about 250,000, came just over a week after a Russian missile strike killed about 20 people, including nine children, in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih.
Russia said it was targeting a meeting of soldiers, but there is no evidence to support the claim.
The attacks on their cities has left many Ukrainians wondering where the next will occur and cast a shadow over the ongoing ceasefire talks being brokered by the United States.
AP video by Alex Babenko
Produced by Yehor Konovalov
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