About 100 airstrikes per day: Russia shells Sumy region with barrel artillery, mortars, damaging school, house, civilian infrastructure

Head of Sumy regional military administration Dmytro Zhivytsky shared the news.

During the day, August 18, Russian forces shelled the Sumy region 7 times. There were no victims, but there was destruction. About 100 strikes were recorded in the territories of Bilopolska, Krasnopilska and Myropilska communities.

"Bilopolska community: the enemy shelled the community from the territory of the Russian Federation with barrel artillery - 15 hits. As a result of the shelling, a non-residential building and school premises were damaged. It was about half past ten in the morning. At 19:55, mortar shelling began - 10 hits. And at 20:00 artillery shelling began, 20 airstrikes," the report says.

At 13:50, the Krasnopilska community was shelled. Russian forces opened fire with a mortar - 7 hits.

From 14:20, 120-mm mortar fire continued in the Myropil community - 15 hits. Continued at 17.30. Civilian infrastructure was damaged.