Ukrainian forces have launched a missile attack on a boarding school in the city of Sudzha, in Russia’s Kursk region, the Russian Defence Ministry claimed on Sunday.
The Russian air defences detected several missiles fired from Ukraine’s southern region towards Sudzha on Saturday, according to the ministry.
“The Ukrainian Armed Forces’ strike on a civilian facility in Sudzha demonstrates the terrorist, inhuman nature of those in power in Kyiv,” the Defence Ministry said in its statement on Sunday.
According to Aleksandr Khinstien, acting governor of Kursk, dozens of civilians were reportedly sheltering inside the targeted building, though no official confirmation has been made regarding the exact number of people killed in the attack.
“In any case, a rocket attack on a boarding school, where civilians could be hiding, is a crime that has no forgiveness and no statute of limitations,” he said, adding that “the inhuman brutality of the Kyiv regime cannot be justified.”
Earlier, Moscow also raised the issue of Ukraine turning Sudzha School into a “Nazi-style prison” and sought to draw international attention to the matter.
“We have ample evidence of ‘concentration camps’ being set up in several settlements controlled by militants… Between 70 and 100 civilians were ‘herded’ into the basements of the boarding school in Sudzha, where they were harassed and subjected to violence,” Russia’s envoy to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, told the Security Council in September.
On Friday, Russian investigators released several images which they claim serve as evidence of Ukrainian brutality towards Russian citizens living in the Kursk region.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova called the images released by investigators horrific and unwatchable.
“What kind of inhuman being tortures elderly civilians, beats them, injures them, and then blows them up with grenades?” she asked, referring to the forensic evidence uncovered in the village.
