Kyiv (Ukraine), May 8 (LaPresse/AP) – A woman was killed and two others were injured during Russian raids in the Sumy region of northeastern Ukraine, despite the 72-hour unilateral truce declared by Russian President Vladimir Putin to mark the 80th anniversary of Victory Day over Nazi Germany in World War II, Russia’s most important secular holiday. Ukrainian authorities reported the incident. Kyiv had called for a longer ceasefire. Ukraine’s air force noted that large-scale missile and drone attacks, which had been occurring almost daily in recent weeks, were not recorded after 8:30 p.m. yesterday (the unilateral ceasefire took effect at midnight Thursday, Moscow time). However, smaller-scale Russian attacks continued in areas closer to the border, causing civilian casualties. The Ukrainian regional prosecutor’s office in Sumy reported that bombs were dropped on residential areas near the frontier. Ukrainian air forces reported glide bombs and at least one missile strike in the Sumy region starting from 2:39 a.m. Thursday. The woman killed was 55 years old and was in her home in the Mykolaivka community around 3 a.m.; the injured are her 24-year-old son and a 70-year-old woman, who was wounded about 30 minutes later by a bomb that hit civilian infrastructure in the Vorozhba community.
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