14 people were killed and 17 injured in a Russian strike on a five-story residential building in central Ukraine amid the blame game between Russia and Ukraine over an attack on the boarding school in the Kursk region in Russia.
On Saturday, an attack on a boarding school residing civilians resulted in 4 people being killed and 84 being injured.
Russia blamed Ukraine for the attack on the boarding school, also calling it a ‘war crime.’ In a statement, the Russian defense ministry stated, “On February 1, the Ukrainian Armed Forces committed another war crime by launching a targeted missile strike on a boarding school in the city of Sudzha”.
The Russian Ministry of Defense alleged Ukrainian forces to have launched the missile strike on the school from Ukraine’s Sumy region. However, Ukraine blamed Russia for the attack.
Addressing the attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on X, “This is how Russia wages war—Sudzha, Kursk region, Russian territory, a boarding school with civilians preparing to evacuate. A Russian aerial bomb. They destroyed the building even though dozens of civilians were there.”
Russia and Ukraine have been involved in ongoing attacks over the weekends, leading to multiple fatalities.
Ukraine claimed Moscow to have sent 55 drones into Ukraine overnight into Sunday, of which 40 drones were destroyed during the overnight attacks while 13 drones were “lost”, likely having been electronically jammed.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported that five Ukrainian drones were shot down overnight across five regions in western Russia: three over the Kursk region and one each over the Belgorod and Bryansk regions.
