KYIV — Russia attacked a hospital in Sumy in northeastern Ukraine early on Saturday (Sept 28), killing 10 people and injuring at least 22 others, Ukrainian officials said.

Danielle Bell, head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, said "loitering munitions" — or suicide drones — hit the Saint Panteleimon Clinical Hospital in two attacks 45 minutes apart.

"Most of the fatalities occurred during the second strike, which hit as first responders arrived at the site and patients attempted to evacuate," she said.

Sumy's regional administration said late on Saturday that 10 people had been killed and 22 injured, including 15 who were in hospital, five of them in serious condition. All the hospital's patients were evacuated to other facilities, it added.

Sumy City Council said on its website that nine high-rise buildings were damaged in addition to the hospital.

Bell said she had been in Sumy last week following up on a deadly Sept 19 attack on a geriatric centre in which at least one civilian had been killed and 13 injured, and recalled an Aug 13 attack on another hospital complex in the city.

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