The Latest Breaking News from Sumy

Refugee champion David Louden is frustrated as Home Office holds up family's bid to reach safety.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow had not seen any desire from Kyiv to fulfil what he described as a preliminary peace deal agreed to in March to end the war in Ukraine, where Russian bombardment continued.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday thanked Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for mediating talks on the export of grain from Ukraine, saying there was some progress. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Putin that Tehran and Moscow need to stay vigilant against "Western deception", calling for long-term cooperation…

An overnight Russian air-launched rocket strike hit a suburb of the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy, killing four and wounding six, the local governor said on Thursday.

Sgt Vadim Shishimarin has become the first Russian soldier in the conflict to be tried for war crimes after he shot a Ukrainian civilian in the head in the north-eastern Sumy region

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

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

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

Ukrainian border guards repelled an incursion by a Russian sabotage and reconnaissance group in the northeastern region of Sumy on Monday, the governor of the Sumy region said.

Vadim Shysimarin accused of killing civilian on 28 February while fighting in Sumy region in north-east Ukraine

Putin’s forces were said to have targeted Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv and Sumy on Thursday as they continued their offensive