Sumy repulsed Russian forces during the 2022 full-scale invasion, now bombs, missiles and rockets are falling on its citizens.
It was the dead of night and a fire was raging in the apartment building where a Russian drone had struck just minutes earlier. Through the smoke, residents stumbled down the stairs from their apartments and told fire officers who were trying to account for all the inhabitants that a young woman was renting the top-floor flat.
“The mood is very anxious,” said Captain Dmytro Lantushenko, 38, spokesperson for the 117th Brigade of the Territorial Defence Forces, based in Sumy. “People read the news, people read Telegram channels, and they cannot ignore the news about a possible attack on Sumy.” Telegram is one of the most widely used social media channels in Ukraine.
A worker installs new windows after a drone strike blew out old ones months earlier in an apartment building in SumyYet the city has lived through heavy assault before and its inhabitants put up a ferocious resistance. When Russia began its full-scale invasion in 2022, tanks rolled into Sumy the very first day, February 24.
Ukrainian soldiers bury a comrade in Sumy. Everyone is the town knows someone who has enlisted and is fighting.Townspeople rallied to the defence of the city, said Lantushenko, who volunteered for the territorial defence forces shortly before the invasion. “There was an incredible unity,” he said. “We realised we had to defend our homes on our own. And thousands of people like me went and took weapons.
Within a month, the Russian army abandoned its northern incursion, retreating from a whole stretch of territory around the capital, Kyiv, and the northeastern cities of Chernihiv and Sumy, to focus on seizing the eastern region of the Donbas.
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