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Russian Attack Destroys KUSUM Pharmaceutical Plant in Sumy, Killing Employee and Halting Production
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A Russian attack destroyed the KUSUM pharmaceutical plant in Sumy on October 4, killing one employee and halting production at the facility.
KUSUM reported the destruction in a statement published on Instagram on October 4. The company identified the killed employee as Yevhen Volodymyrovych Miroshnychenko, who had worked in the plant’s engineering department since 2009.
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“The plant in Sumy has been destroyed. But KUSUM continues to work for the people who need our medicines every day,” the company stated.
The Sumy facility produced medicines that the company described as essential for Ukrainian patients. KUSUM is assessing the extent of the destruction and working to maintain uninterrupted supplies of its products in Ukraine.
The plant produced cardiovascular, gastroenterological, anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, antihypertensive, mucolytic, and pediatric medicines, including tablets, capsules, granules, suspensions, and syrups.
The company also operates manufacturing facilities in Indore and Bhiwadi, India, which it plans to use to reorganize production and sustain deliveries. KUSUM noted that the transition would depend partly on avoiding regulatory obstacles.
The attack follows an earlier major loss for the pharmaceutical producer, when one of its warehouses was destroyed. KUSUM emphasized that it continued operations after that incident and now intends to maintain medicine supplies despite the destruction of its Sumy plant.
The destruction of the KUSUM plant fits a broader pattern of Russian strikes on foreign-owned industrial facilities in Ukraine.
On September 3, a Russian drone strike caused a major fire at a Coca-Cola production plant in Velyka Dymerka, Kyiv region, one of Europe's largest beverage manufacturing sites.
Earlier, a drone attack on Dnipro damaged an oil processing facility owned by US agribusiness Bunge, spilling about 300 tons of oil onto roads and leaving the city's embankment routes impassable for two to three days.
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