Russian Drone Strikes Ukrposhta Mobile Branch in Sumy

Russian forces launched a drone strike against a mobile branch vehicle belonging to Ukraine’s national postal operator, Ukrposhta, in the northeastern Sumy region on Saturday, Sept. 19, wounding postal workers inside, Ukrposhta CEO Ihor Smilyanskyi announced. Smilyanskyi stated that Russian forces targeted the mobile postal van while employees were transporting pensions, medicines, mail, and food supplies to residents in frontline border communities.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Doctors in Sumy and Trostyanets worked overnight to treat the workers, who sustained grave trauma in the blast. “The enemy continues to hunt our mobile Ukrposhta branches that bring pensions, medicine, parcels, and food to Ukrainians. Yesterday, another such drone attack was carried out in Sumy region,” Smilyanskyi stated. “All night, doctors in Sumy and Trostyanets fought for the lives of our workers and, despite severe wounds, give a cautiously positive prognosis.” Escalating weekly bombardment across northern Ukraine The strike on the postal vehicle in Sumy coincides with an intensified aerial campaign targeting civilian infrastructure and transport networks across the country. On Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Russian forces launched more than 2,000 strike drones, 1,700 guided aerial bombs, and 19 missiles of various types against Ukraine over the past week. Zelensky highlighted that Russian attacks have systematically targeted civilian and critical installations across the Sumy, Kharkiv, and Odesa regions, alongside strikes on residential buildings in Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia. Other Topics of Interest Russian FPV Drone Kills Priest, Injures 4 Others in Kherson Monastery A Russian FPV drone struck a monastery in Kherson region, killing a 71-year-old priest and wounding four others, amid nationwide drone strikes on Sept. 20. The president noted that the vast majority of unmanned aerial vehicles deployed in recent bombardments have been high-speed, turbojet-powered variants engineered to evade mobile air defense fire. The aerial onslaught has also targeted humanitarian and religious sites across other operational directions. On Saturday, Sept. 19, a Russian first-person view (FPV) tactical drone struck an active male monastery in the village of Chervonyi Mayak within Kherson region’s Novoraisk community, killing a 71-year-old priest and injuring four other clergymen on the monastery grounds. Zelensky reiterated that sustaining defense pressure and tightening international sanctions against Moscow remain critical to curbing attacks on non-combatants, calling on the US, European partners, and the Group of Seven (G7) nations to introduce decisive measures to enforce peace through strength. Kyiv Post is Ukraine’s first and oldest English news organization, reporting since 1995. Its international reach – 97% of readers are outside of Ukraine – make it truly Ukraine’s global voice.