Ukraine and Russia traded blame for a lethal missile strike on Saturday that killed at the least 4 folks within the dormitory of a boarding faculty located in part of Russia’s Kursk area held by Kyiv forces.
Among the struggle’s fiercest battles in current months have been going down within the Kursk area that borders Ukraine, the place Kyiv forces have held swathes of the land since staging a serious cross-border incursion final August.
Ukraine’s Armed Forces mentioned on its Telegram messaging app that Russia launched an aerial bomb from Russian territory that struck a boarding faculty in Sudzha, killing at the least 4. The boarding faculty housed folks getting ready for evacuation.
As of 10 p.m. (2000 GMT) on Saturday, 84 folks had been rescued or acquired medical help, the assertion mentioned. 4 of the injured have been in a critical situation. Rescue efforts to clear rubble have been continuing.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned the assault on Sudzha, some 12 km (7.5 miles) from the border with Ukraine, reveals how Russia fights the struggle.
That is how Russia wages struggle—Sudzha, Kursk area, Russian territory, a boarding faculty with civilians getting ready to evacuate. A Russian aerial bomb. They destroyed the constructing regardless that dozens of civilians have been there.
That is how Russia waged struggle in opposition to Chechnya many years in the past.… pic.twitter.com/MG4MVhcumS
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) February 1, 2025
“They destroyed the constructing regardless that dozens of civilians have been there,” Zelenskyy wrote on X.
“That is how Russia waged struggle in opposition to Chechnya many years in the past. They killed Syrians the identical manner. Russian bombs destroy Ukrainian houses the identical manner.”
Russia’s defence ministry mentioned early on Sunday on Telegram that Ukraine’s forces launched “a focused missile strike on a boarding faculty within the metropolis of Sudzha” from the territory of Ukraine.
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Russia’s appearing governor of the Kursk area, Alexander Khinshtein, additionally blamed Kyiv forces for the strike and mentioned there is no such thing as a dependable data but in regards to the variety of potential victims.
Ukraine’s navy spokesperson, Oleksiy Dmytrashkivskyi, had earlier mentioned in a video posted on Fb that almost 100 folks have been below rubble on the web site, which he mentioned had housed principally aged and infirm folks.
Reuters was not capable of confirm the claims by both aspect independently, and the scope of the assault remained unclear.
Either side deny concentrating on civilians within the struggle that Russia launched with its full-scale invasion in February 2022. 1000’s of civilians, nonetheless, have been killed, the overwhelming majority of them Ukrainian.
