A trolleybus driver who was injured when struck by KABs has died in Sumy
A 57-year-old trolleybus driver died in a hospital in Sumy after sustaining extremely severe injuries as a result of a Russian attack with guided aerial bombs (KAB) on June 22.
According to Grigorov, the man was near the epicenter of the explosion during an evening strike on the outskirts of Sumy on Monday.
“Unfortunately, a 57-year-old man who sustained severe injuries as a result of a Russian guided aerial bomb strike on the outskirts of Sumy has died in the hospital. He was a trolleybus driver who was near the epicenter of the strike at the time of the attack on Monday evening,” he said.
The head of the Regional Military Administration emphasized that medical personnel tried for a long time to save the man, but his injuries proved to be fatal.
“All this time, doctors were fighting to save his life. But his injuries were extremely severe,” Grigorov added.
This was reported by Oleg Grigorov, head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration.
As a reminder, in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, the death toll has risen following a missile strike carried out by Russian forces the day before. Four victims of the attack have been confirmed so far.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops carried out 1,021 strikes on 38 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region. As of June 24, one person was killed and 12 others were wounded in Zaporizhzhia and surrounding districts as a result of the attacks.
As a reminder, drones struck 193 Russian trucks near occupied Crimea over the course of five days.
Earlier, on June 16, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don handed down sentences to two Ukrainian prisoners of war from the “Azov” battalion, sentencing them to 17 and 20 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
Russia has handed down yet another round of sentences to Ukrainian prisoners of war. The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced six defenders of Ukraine to terms ranging from 12 to 19 years in a strict-regime penal colony.
