The Russians used a drone to assault a lorry that was being loaded with grain within the Unhappy hromada in Sumy Oblast on Monday 16 March, killing the motive force. [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]

Supply: Oleh Hryhorov, Head of Sumy Oblast Navy Administration

Quote: "One other loss in Sumy Oblast. A 40-year-old man was killed within the Unhappy hromada. He had gone there to load grain."

Particulars: Hryhorov reported that the Russians intentionally hit the cab of the lorry, the place the motive force was sitting , with a drone.

"After being hit, it caught fireplace. Sadly, the person was killed," Hryhorov stated.

He expressed his condolences to the household and family members of the deceased.

Background: Earlier, a Russian drone attacked a civilian man on motorbike within the Velyka Pysarivka hromada, and a 48-year-old native resident who sustained extreme accidents within the strike later died.

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