The school was a refuge for mainly older people in the city of Sudzja in the Ukrainian-controlled territory in the Russian region of Kursk. This is stated by Oleksij Dmytrasjkivskij, spokesperson for the Ukrainian military administration in Kursk.
"During the work of clearing the rubble, 84 civilians with stable health were rescued, four are seriously injured and four people died", writes the Ukrainian General Staff on Telegram and continues:
"The targeted attack was intentional".
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyj accuses Russia of striking "its own civilians".
"Russian bombs destroy Ukrainian homes in the same way. And the Russian army uses similar tactics even against its own", he writes on X.
This is the second time in two weeks that Ukraine has alerted about a Russian missile attack on a school in the city. In mid-January, a handful of people were injured.
Ukraine entered Russian Kursk in a surprise counteroffensive in August last year and controls part of the region. Around 6,000 people lived in Sudzja before the war began in 2022.
