At least 21 people are killed in a Russian bombardment in the Ukrainian city of Sumy

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At least 21 people were killed on Monday in

of the Ukrainian city of

, according to a new balance from local authorities provided on Tuesday.

"The bodies of 21 people

, have been found" at the scene of the accident, the regional prosecutor's office said on Facebook.

In the previous official balance, the death of nine people had been confirmed.

"Last night, Russian fascist pilots committed another

in

. 500-kilogram bombs were dropped on residential buildings (...)," the Ukrainian State Emergency Service wrote on Telegram.

Sumy

, near the Russian border, has been the scene of

for several days.

According to Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk, the Russian Defense Ministry committed in a letter to the Red Cross to respect the

to evacuate civilians on Tuesday, with a truce from 09:00 to 21:00 local time (07:00 to 19:00 GMT) and a first evacuation convoy starting at 10.00.

But this person in charge immediately denounced a violation of these guarantees.

"We have information according to which the Russian side plans to disturb this corridor, and that there are manipulations to

that is not coordinated (with the Ukrainians) and is dangerous," he said.

He also noted requests from humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians from other cities such as Kiev, Kharkiv, Mariupol and Volnovakha and called on

to "urgently coordinate with the Ukrainians" to ensure a ceasefire in these areas.

Shortly after, the first buses and cars that have joined the operation to evacuate civilians from

left this town in northeastern

as part of

opened on Tuesday, confirmed Kirill Timoshenko, deputy head of the President's Office. ukrainian

"

was given a humanitarian corridor, the first stage of evacuation began," Timoshenko wrote on his Telegram account, posting a video of the first buses and private vehicles leaving the city of almost

. .

The head of the regional state administration of

, Dmitro Zhyvytskyy, confirmed on the same social network that "the first column left the city at 09:00" local time (07:00 GMT), escorted by a Red Cross vehicle, according to reports. you can see in a short video.

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