Conflicting reports have emerged regarding a deadly attack on a boarding school in Sudzha, a city in Russia’s Kursk region that has been under Ukrainian control for five months. Both Ukraine and Russia are accusing each other of carrying out the strike.
The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces reported that four people were killed and four others seriously wounded in the attack. Ukrainian servicemen managed to rescue 84 individuals from the rubble of the building. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy alleged that Moscow had bombed the boarding school where civilians were seeking shelter and preparing to evacuate. Those requiring additional medical attention were evacuated to medical facilities in Ukraine.
On the other hand, the Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that it was Ukrainian forces who launched a missile strike on the school, stating that the missiles originated from Ukraine’s Sumy region.
Meanwhile, the death toll from a Russian missile strike on an apartment block in the Ukrainian city of Poltava has risen to 14, including two children. Seventeen individuals were injured in the attack on the five-story building, as per Ukraine's State Emergency Service.
Ukrainian officials reported that Moscow sent 55 drones into Ukraine overnight, with 40 drones being destroyed during the attacks. An additional 13 drones were likely jammed electronically. Incidents involving drones resulted in casualties, with two individuals wounded in the Kharkiv region and five others injured when a Russian drone struck a bus in Kherson.
On the Russian side, the Defense Ministry stated that five Ukrainian drones were shot down in various regions of western Russia, including the Kursk, Belgorod, and Bryansk regions. Tragically, a man lost his life in a drone strike in the Belgorod region.
