Ukraine, Russia accuse each other of deadly strike on boarding school in Kursk region

Ukraine’s Armed Forces said connected its Telegram messaging app that Russia launched an aerial weaponry from Russian territory that struck a boarding schoolhouse successful Sudzha, sidesplitting astatine slightest four. The boarding schoolhouse housed radical preparing for evacuation.

As of 10 p.m. (2000 GMT) connected Saturday, 84 radical had been rescued oregon received aesculapian assistance, the connection said. Four of the injured were successful a superior condition. Rescue efforts to wide rubble were proceeding.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the onslaught connected Sudzha, immoderate 12 km (7.5 miles) from the borderline with Ukraine, shows however Russia fights the war.

This is however Russia wages war—Sudzha, Kursk region, Russian territory, a boarding schoolhouse with civilians preparing to evacuate. A Russian aerial bomb. They destroyed the gathering adjacent though dozens of civilians were there.

This is however Russia waged warfare against Chechnya decades ago.… pic.twitter.com/MG4MVhcumS

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) February 1, 2025

“They destroyed the gathering adjacent though dozens of civilians were there,” Zelenskyy wrote connected X.

“This is however Russia waged warfare against Chechnya decades ago. They killed Syrians the aforesaid way. Russian bombs destruct Ukrainian homes the aforesaid way.”

Russia’s defence ministry said aboriginal connected Sunday connected Telegram that Ukraine’s forces launched “a targeted rocket onslaught connected a boarding schoolhouse successful the metropolis of Sudzha” from the territory of Ukraine.

Russia’s acting politician of the Kursk region, Alexander Khinshtein, besides blamed Kyiv forces for the onslaught and said determination is nary reliable accusation yet astir the fig of imaginable victims.

Ukraine’s subject spokesperson, Oleksiy Dmytrashkivskyi, had earlier said successful a video posted connected Facebook that astir 100 radical were nether rubble astatine the site, which helium said had housed mostly aged and infirm people.

Reuters was not capable to verify the claims by either broadside independently, and the scope of the onslaught remained unclear.

Both sides contradict targeting civilians successful the warfare that Russia launched with its full-scale penetration successful February 2022. Thousands of civilians, however, person been killed, the immense bulk of them Ukrainian.