Russian forces continued offensive operations in northern Sumy Oblast on September 17 and 18 but did not advance.

Russian forces continued offensive operations in northern Sumy Oblast on September 17 to 18 but did not advance.

A large-scale Russian drone attack on the city of Konotop in Sumy Oblast has damaged educational and healthcare facilities, houses, the gas distribution network and railway infrastructure.

A nursery school and the building of School No. 11 were damaged.

Many houses have been damaged. We have damage to medical facilities. The railway has also sustained damage...

Damage to the gas distribution network has left a significant part of the city without gas supplies.

Many power lines have also been severed.

Russian forces struck a multistory apartment building in Sumy with guided aerial bombs, killing two people and injuring seven others.

Sumy Mayor Artem Kobzar said the people killed in the strike were employees of the city council.

Oleh Hryhorov, Head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration, stated that the enemy struck Sumy and its outskirts with guided aerial bombs, hitting an apartment building with people possibly trapped under rubble.

A Russian guided aerial bomb struck a high-rise residential building in Sumy late on Sept. 18.

Russia's strike on a residential building in Sumy killed at least two people and injured 7others.

Russian forces reportedly used a guided aerial bomb (KAB) to hit the building between the third and fourth floors.

Four people, including a child, have already been rescued from under the rubble.

A massive attack by Russian drones on Konotop damaged social and critical infrastructure, private homes, the gas distribution network, and the railway.

The Russians have been relentlessly 'tormented', as they put it, the trains to Sumy and from Sumy. There have been killed and wounded, not to mention the endless evacuations of passengers.