Ukraine and Russia exchanged the blame for a deadly missile strike which killed at least four people in the dormitory of a boarding school located in a part of the Kursk Russia region owned by Ukrainian forces.
Some of the most ferocious battles of the war have taken place in recent months in the Kursk region which borders Ukraine, where the kyiv forces have organized sections of the earth since the staging of a great cross -border incursion in last August.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine declared on the Telegram messaging application that Russia had launched an air bomb from the Russian territory which struck a boarding school in Sudzha, killing at least four. The boarding school hosted people who were preparing for evacuation.
At 10 p.m. (2000 GMT) on Saturday, 84 people were saved or received from medical assistance, according to the press release. Four of the injured were in serious condition. The life efforts to eliminate the rubble get.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the Sudzha attack, about 7.5 miles (12 km) from the border with Ukraine, showed Russia fights war.
“They destroyed the building even if dozens of civilians were there,” wrote Zelenskyy on X. “This is how Russia waged a war against Chechnya decades ago. They killed Syrians in the same way. Russian bombs destroy Ukrainian houses in the same way. »»
The Russian Defense Ministry said on telegram early Sunday that the forces of Ukraine launched “a missile strike targeted in an internship in the city of Sudzha” in the territory of Ukraine.
The acting governor of the acting region of Russia, Alexander Khinshtein, also blamed kyiv’s forces for the strike and said that there was not yet reliable information on the number of potential victims.
A Ukrainian military spokesperson Oleksiy Dmytrashkivskyi, previously said in a video published on Facebook that nearly 100 people were under rubble on the site, which he said mainly hosted the elderly and infirm.
Reuters was unable to check the complaints on each side independently, and the scope of the attack remained unclear.
The two parties denied to target civilians in the war that Russia launched with its large -scale invasion in February 2022. Thousands of civilians, however, were killed, the vast majority of them Ukrainian.