The Glinsk Hermitage is a monastery in the village of Sosnivka, Shostka district, Sumy region. The Information and Education Department of the UOC reported on 3 June 2025 that on 2 June the Russian army had struck with an FPV drone in the area of the monastery, and it cited a Facebook post by Metropolitan Yevlohii of Sumy and Okhtyrka. According to the department, the metropolitan wrote that forces of the Russian Federation had struck the monastery and that one person had received a mine-blast injury.
The local outlet Hlukhiv.City wrote on 2 June that Russians struck with an FPV drone at about 10 a.m. in the area of the monastery. According to information the outlet received from the Sumy prosecutor’s office, the attack took place in the area of the Glinsk Hermitage near the village of Sosnivka.
Both reports mention one wounded person, a local resident who worked at the monastery. The Information and Education Department of the UOC, citing the regional prosecutor’s office, wrote that the man was taken to hospital in Hlukhiv with a mine-blast injury and a shrapnel wound to the chest. Hlukhiv.City wrote that his life was not in danger and that he had been given medical help in hospital.
Sources: Information and Education Department of the UOC, 3 June 2025, citing Metropolitan Yevlohii of Sumy and Okhtyrka and the regional prosecutor’s office; Hlukhiv.City, 2 June 2025, citing the Sumy prosecutor’s office.
Correction, 2 October 2026. This item previously spelled the name of the hermitage “Hlynska Hermitage”; it now reads “Glinsk Hermitage”, the spelling used on the hermitage’s own page on this site. Nothing else in the item has changed.
