War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Sumy Oblast

Apartment building heavily damaged by a Russian drone strike, in Sumy, Ukraine, March 13, 2024.

Rescuers work at the site of a Russian military strike in Sumy region, Ukraine, February 27, 2024.

Local residents look at a crater near their residential building damaged during a Russian missile strike in Shostka, Sumy Region Ukraine, January 13, 2024.

Russian shells destroyed at least five private houses in the village of Seredyna-Buda in Ukraine's Shostka Raion of Sumy Oblast on November 28.

Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr hugs his daughter Alina, whom he hadn't seen in more than six months, in a front of a railway station in the northeastern town of Trostyanets on November 1.

Rescuers work at the site of a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Romny in Sumy region, Ukraine August 23, 2023. Four educational workers were killed and four other people were hurt in a Russian attack on a school in the city of Romny in northeastern Ukraine on Wednesday, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said.

An administrative building and 2 multi-apartment residential buildings were damaged as a result of Shahed 136 drone attacks over Sumy, Ukraine, on July 3.

Trostyanets was liberated from the Russian occupiers

Trostyanets was liberated from the Russian occupiers

Trostyanets was liberated from the Russian occupiers

Trostyanets was liberated from the Russian occupiers

Sumy, about 350km (220 miles) east of Kyiv, has experienced weeks of heavy fighting.

Self-propelled guns "Msta-S" of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the city of Trostyanets

Abandoned and destroyed military equipment of the Kantemirovskaya division near the town of Trostyanets in the Sumy region. Abandoned: T-80U, T-80BV, BMP-2 (killed), artillery fire control vehicle, two 2S19 Msta-S. Destroyed: "Ural" with ammunition, "Ural" tanker and T-80U.

Destroyed military equipment near the town of Trostyanets in the Sumy region. Two armored personnel carriers BTR-80, transport-loading vehicle 220-mm MLRS 9K57 "Hurricane" and SAM "Osa".