💥 Attack

Russian forces fired rockets at the Shostka District in Sumy Oblast, striking and damaging the Jewish cemetery in Hlukhiv which contains historical graves of victims from the 1918 pogrom.

Hlukhiv, Sumy Oblast
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Ukrainska Pravda Kyiv Independent

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Ukrainska Pravda → Source tone: certain

Russian forces fired rockets at the Shostka District of Sumy region

Ukrainska Pravda → Source tone: certain

A Russian rocket struck the Jewish cemetery in Hlukhiv

Ukrainska Pravda → Source tone: certain

The Jewish cemetery contains a mass grave of victims from the pogrom of 1918

Ukrainska Pravda → Source tone: certain

The cemetery contains the graves of tzaddiks Menachem-Nohim-David Heselov and Israel-Dov-Ber Nokhimov Shumiatskykh

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: likely

Russian forces bombed a Jewish cemetery in Hlukhiv, Sumy Oblast

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: likely

The graves of the chief tzaddiks survived the attack

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Extracted: 2026-02-16T21:56:55.867Z

Source story: 7344914