Konotop Raion On 2 April, it was reported that the Russian army maintained a corridor in
Konotop Raion through which equipment from Kyiv and Chernihiv could be withdrawn to Russia; local authorities said that Russian forces remained near Konotop,
Bilopillia,
Buryn,
Putyvl, and
Nova Sloboda. On 5 April, Governor Zhyvytsky stated that the bodies of at least three tortured civilians had been found in the Konotop Raion.
Romny Raion On the evening of 24 February, the first day of the Russian invasion, two convoys of Russian soldiers coming from the cities of Nedryhailiv and Konotop (east and north of Romny, respectively) made their way in the direction of Romny. Between 26 and 27 February, more Russian vehicles headed towards Romny from
Krasnopillia, bypassing Sumy. The second convoy was bombed by Ukrainian forces before it reached Romny. On February 28, Russian forces attacked the Romny Correctional Colony. Meanwhile that same day, Russian forces crushed a civilian in the village of when he attempted to use his car to block Russian tanks passing through. On the first day of March, Russian forces captured the villages of Bilovods'ke and Bobryk, just south of Romny, which had been contested in previous days. On 4 March, after negotiations with Russia and Ukraine, Romny was selected as a humanitarian corridor for civilians fleeing
Sumy,
Kharkiv, and
Chernihiv oblasts. That same day, civilians from the village of Spartak attempted to block Russian vehicles passing from Nedryhailiv to Romny. They succeeded in blocking the road, although an ensuing attack by the Russians resulted in one civilian dying. Later that evening on 4 March, Russian forces blocked the road from Lypova Dolyna towards Romny and Bilovod'ske, in southern
Romny Raion, while the highway between Nedryhailiv and Romny was still under Ukrainian control. During the night between 4 and 5 March, Russian soldiers destroyed a poultry farm, killed around 100,000 poultry and causing an estimated one million
hryvnias' worth of damage. On 5 March, three out of four hostages who were taken by Russian troops were released, according to the head of
Romny Raion, Denys Vashchenko. That same day, Russian soldiers standing on the road fired at Ukrainian
TDF troops at a gas station, leaving one Ukrainian soldier killed and two wounded. On the evening of March 5, Russian soldiers fired at two cars traveling from Sumy to Romny, in the village of Pustovyitivka. Three civilians were wounded, and one civilian was killed in the shooting. Later that evening, in the village of Skrypali in Romny raion, Ukrainian forces destroyed a Russian column, and killed an unspecified number of soldiers. In the evening between 5 and 6 March, shots were fired in Pustoviitivka and Romny, with no injuries. The shooting in Romny, however, knocked out electricity for parts of the town. On 11 March, Vashchenko reported that Ukrainian forces unblocked the road between Romny and
Lokhvytsia, allowing civilians to flee southwards. That morning near Romny, police and Ukrainian TDF discovered and detained 29 Russian soldiers in a field, all of whom claimed to be lost. The next day on 12 March, green corridors were established in Sumy Oblast, where civilians from Sumy,
Trostianets,
Konotop,
Lebedyn,
Velyka Pysarivka, and
Krasnopillia could flee towards
Poltava Oblast. Humanitarian corridors restarted again on 18 March. The Ukrainian General Staff reported on 19 March that the
1st Guards Tank Army of Russia began to concentrate efforts on surrounding Sumy, while also attempting offensives in Trostianets,
Pryluky, and Romny, although these offensives did not succeed. Boromlia was struck by Russian airstrikes on 3 and 5 March 2022. Due to the village's location on a highway, Russian columns frequently passed through it. Instances of torture, robbery, and abduction of local residents by Russian forces were reported during the occupation of Boromlia. According to Vasyl Romanika, head of the village administration, four people were tortured and killed during the occupation. The occupation of Boromlia ended on 26 March; Russian forces left during the night, and Ukrainian forces entered in the afternoon.
Trostianets As part of an
offensive towards Kyiv,
columns of tanks from the Russian
4th Guards Tank Division first passed through Trostianets on 24 February, with no real plans of occupying the city. However, the offensive quickly began to stall due to Ukrainian resistance west and southwest of Trostianets, and the detonation of a bridge south of the city. As a result, Trostianets, which was first envisioned as "little more than a speed bump" in Russian plans to swiftly take Kyiv, was
occupied by a garrison of Russian troops on 1 March. About a dozen checkpoints were established in and around the city. During the occupation, Ukrainian police officers remained in the city incognito, supporting both local civilians and
partisan forces operating in the area. and
Guardian journalists found evidence of torture and summary executions in the city. Unless neighbors or other civilians carried in the bodies of the dead, they would be left in the streets.
Ukrainian counterattack A Ukrainian counteroffensive recaptured the city on 26 March. An
AFP report recorded "a dozen" destroyed or damaged tanks and armored vehicles.
Velykyi Bobryk The village of came under Russian occupation on 17 March. Russian troops occupied a school building, and a local café served as headquarters. Locals accuse the Russian forces of looting shops, occupying and looting civilian homes, beating and torturing civilians, shooting indiscriminately, firing on civilian houses with
BMPs, and abducting two civilian residents. The Russians left Velykyi Bobryk during the early morning hours of 26 March.
Steblianky The village of came under Russian occupation on 19 March. Locals claim that Russian forces broke into unoccupied homes and looted them. The Ukrainian military forced the Russians out of the village on 26 March. == 2024 Russian raids on border settlements ==