Putin's deadly Easter missile raid targets cake factory and injures children (2025)

Vladimir Putin’s latest Easter onslaught on Ukraine included an attack on a cake factory.

Further devastation hit the city of Sumy on Friday morning with an attack on a factory baking Easter treats that led to one person being killed and another injured,.

The head of Sumy district state administration Mykhailo Melnyk said in an update on Facebook, ‘Around 5 am, the enemy struck a UAV type ‘Shahed’ on the pastry shop [in Sumy]. Damaged production of Easter cakes.

‘The entrepreneur who came for the products was killed. An employee of a confectionery shop sought medical attention.’

The man was said to be collecting traditional ‘paska’ sweet bread, a sweet treat popular at family gatherings in Ukraine.

The attack on Sumy follows another strike on Palm Sunday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said was ‘right in the heart of the city’.

It killed 34 people, including two children and injured 117 others.

One ballistic missile and 5 Iskander-K cruise missiles were launched in the overnight attacks, according to reporting in the Odessa Journal.

A further ’37 Shahed-type attack UAVs and decoy drones of other types’ were launched as the regions of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk and Mykolaiv were all affected.

A total of 87 people, including six children, are reported to have been injured in an overnight strike in Kharkiv, which was carried out with Russian ballistic missiles equipped with cluster munitions, authorities said. One person was killed.

A Ukrainian source accused Russia of ‘deliberately launching shrapnel missiles to cause as many casualties and injuries as possible’.

The casualty figures come from the Mayor of Kharkiv Ihor Terekhov, who wrote on the messaging app Telegram that the ‘number of victims is increasing almost every hour’.

Terekhov said that the type of weapon used pointed towards the extent of the damage. Estimates said at least 30 houses, 20 apartment buildings and an educational institution were all damaged. A fire also broke out, covering 450 square metres.

Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city and close to the Russian border, is a frequent target for attacks from the air.

Further reports say an Iskander-M ballistic missile was used to attack Kharkiv. Iskander-M ballistic missiles can fly at a range of up to 310 miles and a velocity of 2,000 metres a second.

Tower block resident Inna Mazurova said: ‘We woke up to explosions. I can’t say anything right now, because I’m so emotional.

‘I don’t have a room on this side of the building any more, everything was blown out. The ceiling was blown off, and the door. I had a glass door, and it was shattered. The blast wave shattered the aquarium, the whole apartment was in the water.’

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