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After the first strike killed one person, Russia attacked a second time whilst patients and staff were evacuating, Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said. Local officials in Sumy reported that Iranian-made Shahed drones were used in the attack. Eleven other people were wounded, the head of the Sumy City Military administration, Oleksii Drozdenko, said. Sumy lies some 32 kilometres from Russia’s Kursk region, where Ukrainian troops have been deployed since Aug. 6 in a bid to divert the Kremlin’s military focus away from the front line in Ukraine. Ukraine’s air force said it shot down 69…

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