The Latest Breaking News from Sumy

Baby faced Russian soldier, 21, sentenced to life in prison at Kyiv war crimes trial

Sgt Vadim Shishimarin admitted shooting the civilian in the head in a village in the north-eastern Sumy region

Evening Standard · May 23, 2022

The Chekhov museum in Ukraine under fire from Russian missiles

The writer said he had ‘left his soul behind in Luka’, and wrote of the place in his plays and stories. Sanaa Abdulaziz reports on Chekhov’s beloved home in Ukraine

The Independent UK · May 19, 2022

Russian soldier pleads guilty in first war crimes trial of Ukraine conflict

Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin could get life in prison for shooting a 62-year-old Ukrainian man in the head through an open car window in the northeastern Sumy region

Evening Standard · May 18, 2022

After Russian pullback, Ukraine's northern Sumy region prepares for new assault

Russia's forces may have pulled back in some parts of Ukraine more than a week ago, but the territorial defence force in the northern Sumy region is training and bracing for further attacks.

Reuters · Apr 18, 2022

Bound, beaten, killed: Ukrainian civilians reveal horrors of Russian torture chamber

Special report: One prisoner recalls how a man was beaten to death next to him. Another recounts being stripped, stabbed and subjected to electric shocks. In recently liberated Trostyanets in Sumy, Bel Trew speaks to torture victims and uncovers fresh evidence of possible war crimes in northeast Ukraine

The Independent UK · Apr 17, 2022

Ukrainians brave Russian-mined cemetery to mourn the dead

The handmade sign on the gate warns "The cemetery is mined. Danger." but residents of the formerly occupied town of Trostyanets in northern Ukraine still come to visit the fresh graves of family killed in the war.

Reuters · Apr 16, 2022

NHS worker finally gets visa and opens her home to Ukrainian refugee fleeing war

Diet expert Sarah Ockelton, 33, is opening her home to Nataliya Nikolaienko, 28, who fled her hometown of Sumy on a month ago. The refugee suffers from a degenerative spinal condition

Daily Mirror · Apr 14, 2022

Aid convoys unable to reach Ukraine's Mariupol

The United Nations said relief convoys have so far failed to reach Mariupol after the port city has been devastated by weeks of shelling by Russian forces, but aid including food and medicine arrived in the northeastern city of Sumy.

Bangkok Post · Apr 1, 2022

Ukrainian forces retake town south of Sumy from Russia, U.S. official

The United States assesses that Ukrainian forces have retaken the town of Trostyanets, south of Sumy, from Russian forces, a senior U.S. defense official said on Monday.

Reuters · Mar 28, 2022

Latest Ukraine updates: Russia says first phase of war near end

Ukraine war news from March 25: Russian general says Moscow will push to fully capture eastern region of Donbas.

Al Jazeera · Mar 24, 2022