Russian attack wounds three in Ukraine's Sumy region, local officials say

A Russian guided bomb attack on Saturday wounded 10 people, including two children, in a village in Ukraine's northeastern Sumy region, near the Russian border, local authorities said.

The region borders Russia's Kursk region and has been regularly shelled by Russian forces for months.

Video posted by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy showed parts of a building in the village of Svesa reduced to rubble. Rescue teams ferried residents out of the building on stretchers.

"An entire block of the building, from the ground to the fifth floors was destroyed," Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address. "Neighbouring houses were also damaged."

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Zelenskiy said guided bomb strikes hit two other villages in Sumy region and also neighbouring Kharkiv region.

Russia, which began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, did not immediately comment on the events in Sumy.

Guided, or glide, bombs are conventional, often Soviet-era, weapons with satellite-aided navigation to extend their range and precision. They are often dropped from beyond the range of Ukrainian air defences.