Russian Strikes Kill Five, Injure 40 Across Ukraine; Sumy Train Station Destroyed
Russian attacks across Ukraine over the past day killed at least five and injured 40, the destruction of the civilian train station in Sumy Oblast being the most significant infrastructure loss of the past 24 hours. “The civilian train station, from which hundreds of Sumy Oblast residents set out daily to go about their peaceful business, has become yet another target,” the Ukrainian president’s office said. President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Russia is preparing a major new attack on Ukraine, citing Ukrainian intelligence, and that Russia intends to launch “systematic strikes” on Kyiv targets in the coming weeks.
The Sumy Oblast train-station strike is the latest in a Russian campaign explicitly targeting Ukrainian rail infrastructure since early May, intended to disrupt civilian movement and military logistics ahead of the anticipated Russian summer offensive. Ukrainian air defences shot down 132 of 156 drones overnight Friday, but Patriot interceptor stockpiles are constrained — Zelensky is pressing the United States for more interceptors. The systemic-strikes-on-Kyiv warning lands alongside the Romania-Russia diplomatic escalation: Bucharest’s expulsion of the Russian consul in Constanța on Friday is the highest-tier NATO diplomatic response to an airspace incursion since the war began. Russian drone strikes in Romania, Poland and Latvia have logged dozens of incidents through the war; Galați was the first NATO-soil residential strike with casualties.