Responsibility for attack on boarding school in Russia’s Kursk region disputed between Russia and Ukraine.

Competing claims have arisen regarding a tragic incident at a boarding school in Sudzha, a city in Russia’s Kursk region. The city has been under Ukrainian control for the past five months, and both Ukraine and Russia are pointing fingers at each other, alleging responsibility for the attack.

According to the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, four individuals lost their lives in the strike, while another four sustained severe injuries. Ukrainian servicemen managed to rescue 84 individuals from the debris of the school building. Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, accused Moscow of bombing the boarding school, where civilians sought refuge and were getting ready for evacuation.

The General Staff said those in need of additional medical assistance were evacuated to medical facilities in Ukraine.

Contrarily, the Russian Ministry of Defense asserted in the early hours of Sunday that it was Ukrainian forces who had carried out a missile strike on the school. They claimed that the missiles were launched from Ukraine’s Sumy region.

Meanwhile, the death toll from a Russian missile strike on an apartment block in the Ukrainian city of Poltava on Saturday rose to 14, including two children, local officials said Sunday. Seventeen people were injured in the attack on the five-story building, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said.

Moscow sent 55 drones into Ukraine overnight into Sunday, Ukrainian officials said. According to Ukraine’s Air Force, 40 drones were destroyed during the overnight attacks. A further 13 drones were “lost”, likely having been electronically jammed.

Two people were wounded in a drone attack in the Kharkiv region, regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said Sunday.

In Russia, the Defense Ministry said that five Ukrainian drones were shot down overnight in five regions of western Russia: three over the Kursk region, and one each over the Belgorod and Bryansk regions.

A man was killed in a drone strike in the Belgorod region, regional Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said.