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Russia loses 28,900 artillery pieces — yet still floods Sumy borders with largest number of miliatary equipment in six months

Trains packed with weapons and troops thunder toward Kursk Oblast. Ukraine braces for a brutal fight to keep its city of Sumy alive.
Russian artillery firing on Ukrainian positions, illustrative image, photo via Sputnik.
Russian artillery firing on Ukrainian positions, illustrative image, photo via Sputnik.
Russia loses 28,900 artillery pieces — yet still floods Sumy borders with largest number of miliatary equipment in six months

War intensifies amid Russia’s summer offensive. Ukraine has spotted a massive redeployment of Russian self-propelled artillery and air defense systems to Sumy Oblast. 

Control over Sumy and its surrounding roads would allow Moscow to sever the main supply lines supporting Ukrainian operations in Russia’s Kursk Oblast. Additionally, seizure of the city would strengthen Russia’s territorial claims in any future peace talks. 

Ukrainian forces have recorded a large-scale transfer of Russian military equipment from Crimea and Kherson towards Sumy Oblast. According to Petro Andriushchenko, head of the Occupation Studies Center, this is the largest movement of weaponry in the past six months.

Ukrainian General Staff reports that Russian forces have lost over 28,900 artillery systems since the start of the war, with about 42 artillery systems lost in the past day alone. 

“More than 10 self-propelled artillery systems, air defense systems, and convoys of over 40 trucks carrying ammunition and personnel,” Andriushchenko says.

The equipment is being loaded onto trains and sent to Russia’s Kursk Oblast, effectively heading to Sumy. The Russians are now stationed approximately 25-30 km from it. If they reach the city’s border, they will use artillery to strike it. 

Special attention is drawn to the military equipment markings, which, with their dominant tactical symbol of a triangle within a triangle, indicate reinforcement of this specific direction.

Amid this buildup, Sumy faces heavy drone attacks. Konotop mayor Artem Semenikhin stated that on 8 June, the region endured the most powerful drone assault since the war began: “The entire sky over the region turned red with targets.”