Two ballistic missiles hit the centre of the northeastern city, close to the Russian border, on Sunday morning, Ukrainian authorities said.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky stressed that the attack occurred on Palm Sunday, a major Christian feast.
Emergency services said the missiles killed 34 people, including two children, and wounded 117, including 15 children.
Zelensky said eight of the 68 injured in hospitals were in serious condition.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was “deeply alarmed and shocked” by the strike, which highlighted a “devastating pattern of similar assaults on Ukrainian cities and towns in recent weeks,“ his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
“I think it was terrible. And I was told they made a mistake. But I think it’s a horrible thing. I think the whole war is a horrible thing,“ Trump said.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the attack “horrifying” and a “tragic reminder of why President Trump and his administration are putting so much time and effort into trying to end this war and achieve durable peace”.
Zelensky on Sunday urged the US president to visit his country to better understand the devastation wrought by Russia’s invasion.
‘A lot of corpses’
One witness told AFP she heard two explosions.
Sumy declared three days of mourning.
Zelensky called on the United States and Europe to give a “strong response” to Russia, adding: “Talking has never stopped ballistic missiles and bombs.”
France’s President Emmanuel Macron said the strike showed Russia’s “blatant disregard for human lives, international law and the diplomatic efforts of President Trump”.
Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz described it as “a serious war crime, deliberate and intended”.
It was “a barbaric attack, made even more vile as people gathered peacefully to celebrate Palm Sunday,“ European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said on X.
Relentless Russian offensive
Authorities in Sumy published footage of bodies in the street and people running for safety, with cars on fire and wounded civilians on the ground.
Sumy has been under increasing pressure since Moscow pushed back many of Ukraine’s troops from its Kursk region inside Russia, across the border.
Russia launched its invasion partially through the Sumy region and briefly occupied parts of it before being pushed back by Ukrainian forces.
On Sunday, Russia said it captured another village in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region.
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