According to the statement from the military agency of the aggressor state, two Iskander-M operational-tactical missiles were allegedly used at the location of a "meeting of the command staff of the Siversk operational-tactical group". The russian Ministry of Defense claims over "sixty AFU servicemen" were eliminated. There is no confirmation of this information.
The report does not mention that 34 civilians were killed in the missile strike on downtown Sumy on Sunday morning. The ministry limited itself to stating that "the Kyiv regime continues to use the Ukrainian population as a human shield by placing military facilities and conducting activities involving servicemen in the center of a densely populated city".
Putin's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, also refused to comment on the deaths of civilians in Sumy. The spokesperson for the russian dictator once again urged everyone to trust only the messages of the russian Ministry of Defense and claimed that the russian army strikes only "military targets".