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Vladimir Putin’s latest Easter onslaught on Ukraine included an attack on a cake factory.
Further devastation hit the town of Sumy on Friday morning with an attack on a factory baking Easter treats that led to at least one person being killed and one other injured,.
The pinnacle of Sumy district state administration Mykhailo Melnyk said in an update on Facebook, ‘Around 5 am, the enemy struck a UAV type ‘Shahed’ on the pastry shop [in Sumy]. Damaged production of Easter cakes.
‘The entrepreneur who got here for the products was killed. An worker of a confectionery shop sought medical attention.’
The person was said to be collecting traditional ‘paska’ sweet bread, a sweet treat popular at family gatherings in Ukraine.
The attack on Sumy follows one other strike on Palm Sunday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said was ‘right in the guts of the town’.
It killed 34 people, including two children and injured 117 others.
One ballistic missile and 5 Iskander-K cruise missiles were launched within the overnight attacks, in keeping with reporting within the Odessa Journal.
An additional ’37 Shahed-type attack UAVs and decoy drones of other types’ were launched because the regions of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk and Mykolaiv were all affected.
A complete of 87 people, including six children, are reported to have been injured in an overnight strike in Kharkiv, which was carried out with Russian ballistic missiles equipped with cluster munitions, authorities said. One person was killed.
A Ukrainian source accused Russia of ‘deliberately launching shrapnel missiles to cause as many casualties and injuries as possible’.
The casualty figures come from the Mayor of Kharkiv Ihor Terekhov, who wrote on the messaging app Telegram that the ‘variety of victims is increasing almost every hour’.
Terekhov said that the sort of weapon used pointed towards the extent of the damage. Estimates said no less than 30 houses, 20 apartment buildings and an academic institution were all damaged. A fireplace also broke out, covering 450 square metres.
Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city and shut to the Russian border, is a frequent goal for attacks from the air.
US patience wearing thin, Trump administration says
Russia wants a halt in Western arms supplies to Ukraine and a pause in Ukrainian mobilisation efforts. Such demands have been rejected by Ukraine.
The strikes come as Russia continues to refuse a comprehensive ceasefire pushed by the US and endorsed by Ukraine.
The Trump administration has indicated a frustration in the dearth of progress on this area with secretary of state Marco Rubio stating the US could ‘move on’ from efforts to secure a peace deal.
Following a day of landmark talks with European, US and Ukrainian officials in Paris, Mr Rubio said the US is ‘reaching some extent where we’d like to determine whether that is even possible or not’.
Further reports say an Iskander-M ballistic missile was used to attack Kharkiv. Iskander-M ballistic missiles can fly at a variety of as much as 310 miles and a velocity of two,000 metres a second.
Tower block resident Inna Mazurova said: ‘We woke as much as explosions. I can’t say anything right away, because I’m so emotional.
‘I don’t have a room on this side of the constructing any more, all the things was blown out. The ceiling was blown off, and the door. I had a glass door, and it was shattered. The blast wave shattered the aquarium, the entire apartment was within the water.’
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