{"id":6813,"date":"2025-04-13T08:42:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T08:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=6813"},"modified":"2025-04-13T08:42:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T08:42:41","slug":"russian-missile-strike-on-ukraines-sumy-kills-many-mayor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=6813","title":{"rendered":"Russian missile strike on Ukraine&#8217;s Sumy kills &#8216;many,&#8217; mayor says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB  \">LONDON &#8212; <\/span>A Russian ballistic missile strike on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy killed at least 20 people on Sunday morning, the city&#8217;s acting mayor said, as many there celebrated Palm Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;The enemy struck the civilian population again,&#8221; acting Mayor Artem Kobzar wrote on Telegram. At least 20 people were confirmed killed, Kobzar said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;On this bright day of Palm Sunday, our community suffered a terrible tragedy,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Andriy Yermak, the head of Ukraine&#8217;s presidential office, wrote, &#8220;The Russians hit the city of Sumy with missiles, killing civilians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><em class=\" \">This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8212; A Russian ballistic missile strike on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy killed at least 20 people on Sunday morning, the city&#8217;s acting mayor said, as many there celebrated Palm Sunday. &#8220;The enemy struck the civilian population again,&#8221; acting Mayor Artem Kobzar wrote on Telegram. At least 20 people were confirmed killed, Kobzar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6814,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6813\/revisions\/6814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}