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SUMY, UKRAINE (RELEASED ON AUG. 25, 2025) (STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE OF UKRAINE - RESTRICTED)

1. FLAMES, THICK SMOKE RISING FROM BURNING BUILDING IN UKRAINE'S SUMY

2. FIREFIGHTERS EXTINGUISHING BLAZES (TWO SHOTS)

3. THICK SMOKE, FLAMES RISING FROM BURNING AREA

4. VARIOUS OF FIREFIGHTERS EXTINGUISHING BLAZES

5. SOME PERSONAL BELONGINGS SCATTERED AROUND

6. BUILDING DESTROYED BY RUSSIAN SHELLING

7. FIREFIGHTERS EXTINGUISHING BLAZES (TWO SHOTS) SUMY, UKRAINE — RELEASED ON AUG. 25, 2025 — RESTRICTION: USERS MUST CREDIT “STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE OF UKRAINE” HANDOUT, MUST NOT OBSCURE LOGO —EDITORIAL USE ONLY— Six people were injured on Monday, Aug. 25, after overnight Russian shelling targeted a settlement in the Sumy region in northern Ukraine, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.

The strikes damaged several residential buildings, with emergency teams extinguishing large fires at four locations before bringing them under control.

Additional shelling was recorded in the Romny community, where emergency crews extinguished a blaze in a non-residential building and carried out inspections in the affected areas.

Russia started its "special military operation" in Ukraine in February 2022 to "denazify" and "demilitarize" Ukraine.

According to its memorandum for the settlement of the conflict, Moscow has demanded a ban on Kyiv joining military alliances and withdrawal of Ukraine's troops from Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson, the regions it annexed after a referendum in September 2022, among others.

Ukraine has called the terms an "ultimatum" and has called for a ceasefire as a prerequisite for meaningful talks.