Kursk activist Vladimir Sinelnikov was quoted by Astra on Telegram saying that the Russian aerospace forces had dropped a plane bomb in a former boarding school in the city of Southzha who was used to host the elderly and the elderly and Russian residents in the bed of the city. He said that the building was practically destroyed and that more than 90 inhabitants, which had not been possible to evacuate after the August incursion of Ukraine, were trapped under the rubble.
Shortly after, the press manager of the Commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) in Kursk, Alexey Dmytrashkivskyi confirmed the attack and published a Facebook declaration that said:
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“Today (February 1) at 5:54 pm kyiv Time, the Russian armed forces finally struck the boarding school in the city of Sudzha. 95 people were under the rubble. The groans and the cries of people can be heard under the rubble. Let me remind you that most of them are elderly and bedridden.
He added that “the military commander’s office is currently carrying out research and rescue operations”.
Saturday’s strike followed a previous attack on the building in January using two S-300 Surface to air missiles, which killed a resident, exploded windows and doors. Russia has tried to justify the attack saying that it housed a Ukrainian military command post.
In fact, according to Dmytrashkivskyi speaking at the time, “… residents are all older, and many of them have disabilities, including Parkinson’s disease, some have had brain vascular accidents or suffer from mental illness. The state of people at the moment is quite serious. »»
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He added that around 2,000 local residents who could not evacuate or have chosen to stay throughout the area controlled by the Ukrainian armed forces. He said that between August 6, when Ukraine invaded the region and the attacks on nursing households on January 11 had killed 36 civilians, more than 100 had been injured and around 70 had died of natural causes. He said that many houses in Sudzha had been destroyed and that many surrounding villages simply no longer exist after the missiles, the aerial bomb and the artillery by the armed forces of Russia.
Late Saturday evening, the Ukrainian general staff said that at least four people had been killed and more than 85 injured, four in serious condition.
President Volodymyr Zelensky published on “X” said: “This is how Russia War – Sudzha, Kursk region, Russian territory, a boarding school containing civilians. A Russian air bomb destroyed the building even if there were dozens of civilians. »»
Even later, the Ukrainian Air Force published the screenshot shown above from its Virazh-Tablet follow-up system which clearly showed the trajectory of the Russian air sliding bomb (KAB). It was in response to the statements made earlier by the Russian Ministry of Defense, as reported by the Astra Telegram channel, that the strike was led by Ukrainian missiles launched from the Ukraine Sumy region.
