
A view reveals a constructing of fuel metering station, broken throughout latest combating between Ukrainian and Russian forces close to Sudzha border crossing, close to Oleshnya, Kursk area, Russia Aug. 16, 2024. Reuters-Yonhap
Ukraine and Russia traded blame for a lethal missile strike on Saturday that killed not less than 4 folks within the dormitory of a boarding college located in part of Russia’s Kursk area held by Kyiv forces.
Among the struggle’s fiercest battles in latest months have been going down within the Kursk area that borders Ukraine, the place Kyiv forces have held swathes of the land since staging a significant cross-border incursion final August.
Ukraine’s Armed Forces stated on its Telegram messaging app that Russia launched an aerial bomb from Russian territory that struck a boarding college in Sudzha, killing not less than 4. The boarding college housed folks making ready for evacuation.
As of 10 p.m. (2000 GMT) on Saturday, 84 folks had been rescued or acquired medical help, the assertion stated. 4 of the injured have been in a critical situation. Rescue efforts to clear rubble have been continuing.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated the assault on Sudzha, some 12 km (7.5 miles) from the border with Ukraine, reveals how Russia fights the struggle.
„They destroyed the constructing regardless that dozens of civilians have been there,“ Zelenskyy wrote on X.
„That is how Russia waged struggle in opposition to Chechnya many years in the past. They killed Syrians the identical method. Russian bombs destroy Ukrainian properties the identical method.“
Russia’s protection ministry stated early on Sunday on Telegram that Ukraine’s forces launched „a focused missile strike on a boarding college within the metropolis of Sudzha“ from the territory of Ukraine.
Russia’s performing governor of the Kursk area, Alexander Khinshtein, additionally blamed Kyiv forces for the strike and stated there is no such thing as a dependable data but in regards to the variety of potential victims.
Ukraine’s navy spokesperson, Oleksiy Dmytrashkivskyi, had earlier stated in a video posted on Fb that almost 100 folks have been below rubble on the website, which he stated had housed principally aged and infirm folks.
Reuters was not capable of confirm the claims by both facet independently, and the scope of the assault remained unclear.
Each side deny concentrating on civilians within the struggle that Russia launched with its full-scale invasion in February 2022. 1000’s of civilians, nonetheless, have been killed, the overwhelming majority of them Ukrainian. (Reuters)