The worst is yet to come for the sumy region, in the northeast of Ukraine, according to the commander in chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi. On April 9, he indicated that the Russian spring offensive in the Jharkiv and Sumy regions, in fact, began a week ago, with intensified assaults.
Mykola Toryanyk, 58, mayor and head of the Khotin district, located in kilometers north of the city of Sumy, was prepared for this bad news. “The houses of a fifth or Khotin are already destroyed,” he said, through greedy teeth. A former police researcher, had penetrating eyes and a resistant physicist. The Khotin district is located in a mountainous border area, and has the objective of mass attacks since the beginning of March. Clinging to the wheel of an ambulance, his tight jaw of tension, resembled a captain who held tight to the helmet of a ship that sinks.
The mayor led as quickly as possible on the abused roads of the town. There was almost no one outside or visible activity, but four of the ten supermarkets of the town were still open, Toryanyk said. He pointed out the impacts of the war on the village, which had lived 3,000 residents before the invasion. Here, a graduated rocket lay caught in a median strip; There, a gym had flown his legs separately. The favor oil oil factory, the main employer of the community, had been largely destroyed by four Shahed attack drones.
‘Stay alert all the time’
However, what disliked the mayor was complete destruction, March 12, or the Municipal School of Khotin, which had served 600 students. Build at the site of an old noble residence, the imposing building, which had renewed the legs just before the invasion of February 2022, was located in the middle of a fixed cleaning, located among the beauty of nature, a little far from the village. An Iskander-M ballistic missile had hit the school in its center and demolished it. The children, all of whom were evacuated from the district about a year ago, no longer set foot there.
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