October 4: how Sumy and the Sumy region held up on Saturday

War with Russia

During the day, from the morning of October 3 to the morning of October 4, 2025, Russian troops carried out 198 shelling attacks on 50 settlements in 21 territorial communities of the region. The highest number of attacks was recorded in the Sumy, Shostka, and Okhtyrka districts.

The enemy used nearly 30 guided aerial bomb (KAB) strikes, 20 UAV strikes, more than 10 MLRS attacks, up to 10 VOG grenade drops from UAVs, and carried out FPV drone strikes on the territory of the Sumy region.

As a result of Russian shelling of the region, civilians were injured:

• In the Seredyna-Buda community, three women aged 59, 67, and 76, and two men aged 60 and 74 were injured due to VOG grenade drops from a UAV;
• In the Andriiashevka community (according to updated information), three civilians were injured as a result of a missile strike on the morning of October 3: two women aged 62 and 50, and a child aged 8;
• In the Mykolaiv settlement community, a 56-year-old man was injured due to a UAV attack;
• A 79-year-old man who had been wounded during a Russian attack in the Konotop community on September 30 died in hospital. Doctors fought for his life for four days, but on October 4 his heart stopped.

Objects of civilian infrastructure were damaged or destroyed:

• in the Velyka Pysarivka community, a private house was damaged;
• in the Shostka community, civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged;
• in the Seredyna-Buda community, a private residential house was damaged;
• in the Hlukhiv community, a private residential house was damaged;
• in the Buryn community, the premises of an educational institution were damaged;
• in the Sumy community, a civilian infrastructure facility and a private house were damaged;
• in the Okhtyrka community, a non-residential building was destroyed, agricultural machinery and a non-residential building were damaged;
• in the Krasnopillia community, non-residential premises were damaged;
• in the Andriiashevka community (according to updated information), as a result of shelling on the morning of October 3, 13 private residential houses, 1 kindergarten building, 1 school building, 8 outbuildings, 3 garages, 3 passenger cars, and a tractor were damaged.

Grim statistics of the war:

During September:

• More than 3,000 attacks were recorded: 599 guided aerial bombs, 323 UAV strikes, 33 missile strikes;
• 11 people were killed, including a family from the Krasnopillia community;
• 103 residents were injured or affected;
• More than 170 houses were damaged, as well as educational and medical institutions.

On October 4 around noon, Russia attacked the railway station in the Shostka community with strike drones. The enemy deliberately hit a passenger train operating on the Shostka–Kyiv route. As a result of the attack on the station in Shostka, one person was killed, according to the prosecutor’s office. The body of a 71-year-old man was found in the train carriage that was hit by a Shahed drone. Eight injured people were hospitalized, one of them in serious condition. Among the injured were three children aged 8, 11, and 14. The eldest child, a 14-year-old boy, is in moderate condition. In addition to the Shostka–Kyiv passenger train, a suburban train was damaged, and the city of Shostka and part of the district were left without power.

Also on Saturday, a drone attacked a boat with fishermen in the Seredyna-Buda community. As a result of the strike, a 63-year-old man was killed. A 65-year-old man was injured.

Also today, a “Molniya”-type strike was recorded on one of the starosta districts of our community. Preliminary reports indicate no casualties. One residential house was damaged.

Evacuation

Over the course of the day, local authorities, together with units of the State Emergency Service, the National Police, and public organizations, evacuated 3 people from border communities. In September, 255 people were evacuated, including 19 children.

Sources: Sumy Regional Military Administration, Sumy City Military Administration, Operational Command “North”, National Police, State Emergency Service of Sumy region, Kordon.Media, Suspilne Sumy