Ukraine says that at least 18 civilians are killed in strikes

The Ukrainian authorities said on Sunday that two air strikes one day earlier had killed at least 18 civilians, one of the highest tolls of a day so far this year and a dark recall of the lasting devastation of war as approaching its fourth year.

The first strike occurred on Saturday morning when a Russian missile struck a residential building in the Ukrainian city of Poltava, nearly 150 miles from the front line lines, killing at least 14 people, including two children, according to services local emergency. Videos of the attack on the attack showed that a section of the building reduced in rubble, with clothes and documents dispersed in the region.

A few hours later, the Ukrainian authorities said that a Russian bomb had broken a boarding school in Sudzha, a city in western Russia under Ukrainian control, killing four people.

The Russian Defense Ministry blamed kyiv for the murderous strike in Sudzha and did not address the attack on Poltava. None of the team’s claims could be verified independently.

Ukrainian officials said some 90 Russian civilians moved by nearby battles were sheltered at school when the attack occurred. Oleksiy Dmytrashkivkyi, a military spokesman in the region, said in SMS that four of these people had been killed and 10 injured.

“They destroyed the building even if dozens of civilians were there,” President Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine, said that these were “civilians” of Russia on Saturday. He shared images of the ruins and people covered with dust, visibly shaken by the attack.