President Volodymyr Zelensky says Moscow has bombed a boarding faculty in Ukrainian-occupied Russia the place civilians have been sheltering and getting ready to evacuate.
The Ukrainian military stated 4 individuals have been killed and dozens – lots of them aged – have been injured within the city of Sudzha within the Kursk area, which has been underneath Ukrainian management for 5 months.
Greater than 80 individuals are reported to have been rescued from the constructing.
The BBC has not been in a position to verify Ukraine’s declare that it was a deliberate Russian assault utilizing a guided aerial bomb. Moscow has not commented.
Zelensky posted on X that the incident uncovered Russia as “a state devoid of civility”.
“That is how Russia wages warfare – Sudzha, Kursk area, Russian territory, a boarding faculty with civilians getting ready to evacuate,” he wrote.
“A Russian aerial bomb. They destroyed the constructing regardless that dozens of civilians have been there.”
The Ukrainian military’s basic employees posted on Telegram that 4 individuals had died and that 84 civilians have been rescued, including that “the strike was carried out on objective”.
Ukraine launched a lightning thrust into the Russian oblast of Kursk final August, taking Russian border guards unexpectedly.
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 warfare in opposition to Chechnya many years in the past. They killed Syrians the identical approach. Russian bombs destroy Ukrainian properties the identical approach”.
Whereas there was no official assertion from the Kremlin, not less than one unofficial Russian navy blogger claimed Ukrainian forces have been behind the strike.