KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian rocket attack targeted the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy today, killing at least three people and injuring 25, officials said. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denounced the assault, saying it underscored that Moscow has no intentions of halting the three-year war.
The attack came a day after direct peace talks in Istanbul made no progress on ending the three-year war. Local authorities said the barrage of rockets struck apartment buildings and a medical facility in the center of Sumy.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s secret services said they struck again inside Russia, two days after a spectacular Ukrainian drone attack on air bases deep inside the country.
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The Ukrainian Security Service, known by its acronym SBU, claimed it damaged the