Russian Drone Attack Hits Medical Facility in Sumy, Injures Teenager and Three Others

Russian drones struck a residential area in Sumy overnight, damaging apartment buildings, cars and a medical facility and injuring four people, including a 17-year-old. Make us preferred on Google Share Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn Bluesky Email Copy Copied Cars burn in a residential area of Sumy following a Russian drone strike overnight on April 21, 2026. (Photo: Sumy City Military Administration) Content Share Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn Bluesky Email Copy Copied Flip Make us preferred on Google Russian forces launched a mass drone attack on Sumy overnight, hitting a medical facility, damaging residential buildings and setting cars on fire, according to local officials. Four people were injured, including a teenager. “As a result of the overnight enemy attack on Sumy, four people were preliminarily reported injured, including a 17-year-old child,” Serhii Kryvosheienko, head of the Sumy City Military Administration said. “The child and two men were hospitalized. Another person was treated on site.” Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official . Sumy Mayor Artem Kobzar said a series of explosions was heard across the city and that more than five strikes were recorded in a residential area of the Zarichnyi district. “The enemy continues to attack our city,” Kobzar said on social media. “In one of the residential areas of the Zarichnyi district, more than five strikes were recorded. Windows in residential buildings were blown out, and cars are on fire.” Kobzar also said one of the strikes hit the roof of a healthcare facility. The full extent of the damage was still being assessed early Monday. Kyiv Post is Ukraine’s first and oldest English news organization since 1995. Its international market reach of 97% outside of Ukraine makes it truly Ukraine’s Global – and most reliable – Voice.