President Volodymyr Zelensky says Moscow has bombed a boarding faculty in Ukrainian-occupied Russia the place civilians have been sheltering and making ready to evacuate.
The Ukrainian military mentioned 4 folks have been killed and dozens – a lot of them aged – have been injured within the city of Sudzha within the Kursk area, which has been beneath Ukrainian management for 5 months.
Greater than 80 individuals are reported to have been rescued from the constructing.
The BBC has not been capable of affirm Ukraine’s declare that it was a deliberate Russian assault utilizing a guided aerial bomb. Moscow blamed Ukraine for the bombing.
Zelensky posted on X that the incident uncovered Russia as “a state devoid of civility”.
“That is how Russia wages conflict – Sudzha, Kursk area, Russian territory, a boarding faculty with civilians making ready to evacuate,” he wrote.
“A Russian aerial bomb. They destroyed the constructing although dozens of civilians have been there.”
The Ukrainian military’s basic workers posted on Telegram that 4 folks had died and that 84 civilians have been rescued, including that “the strike was carried out on goal”.
For its half, the Russian defence ministry mentioned Ukraine carried out Saturday’s assault, which it described as a focused missile strike.
Ukraine launched a lightning thrust into the Russian oblast of Kursk final August, taking Russian border guards without warning.
The federal government in Kyiv made it clear on the time that it had no intention of holding on to the territory seized, merely to make use of it as a bargaining chip in future peace negotiations.
Zelensky likened Saturday’s strike to “how Russia waged conflict in opposition to Chechnya a long time in the past. They killed Syrians the identical means. Russian bombs destroy Ukrainian properties the identical means”.
