Two police killed by Russian shelling in north Ukraine

Two police officers were killed and four were wounded by Russian shelling in the northern Ukrainian region of Sumy, Ukraine's interior minister Ihor Klymenko said on Tuesday.

In a post on the Telegram app, Klymenko wrote that an investigative team was deliberately fired upon while documenting damage caused by an earlier Russian strike.

"The bodies of two police officers were recovered from under the rubble. We express our condolences to the families of the dead," he wrote.