Ukraine blames Russia for fatal missile strike on Kursk school

Kremlin claims Ukrainian military attacked site in area occupied by Kyiv since last August

Ukraine’s military has said that Russian forces struck a boarding school housing people preparing for evacuation in a part of Russia’s Kursk region held by Ukrainian forces, killing at least four people.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the attack had destroyed the boarding school in the border town of Sudzha, “even though dozens of civilians were there”.

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