kyiv and Moscow changed Sunday for a strike in a school in a city occupied by Ukrainian in the Kursk region of Russia, while kyiv said that the new missile and unmanned aircraft attacks killed at least 18 people in Ukraine .
The fight in the war of almost three years has not shown signs of relaxation despite the promise of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to quickly reach a high fire after assuming the position on January 20.
The Ukraine Air Force said that four people died in a Russian attack with an air bomb guided on Saturday in an old school building that houses civilians in the city of Sudzha. He said that four others were seriously injured and that 80 people were rescued from the rubble.
“Hitting civilians with bombs is a characteristic style of Russian criminals! Even when civilians are local residents, Russians, ”he said.
Russia did not give a toll, but accused kyiv of attacking school in a “crime that has no forgiveness or statute of limitations.”
“The Ukrainian Armed Forces committed another war crime by launching a missile strike directed in a boarding school in the city of Sudzha,” said the Ministry of Defense of Russia.
Russian investigators announced that they had opened a criminal case against a Ukrainian commander who said he was behind the attack.
kyiv launched a surprise operation in the Kursk region last August, taking dozens of towns and small cities, including Sudzha, home of approximately 6,000 people before the fighting.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, called Russia “devoid of courtesy”, sharing a video on social networks that shows a very damaged building, as well as an injured man who lies on the ground.
“They destroyed the building despite the fact that dozens of civilians were there,” Zelensky said in a position on X. “Russian bombs destroy the Ukrainian houses in the same way. And even against their own civilians, the Russian army uses similar tactics” .
In Ukraine, at least 18 people were killed while Russian attacks hit the center and east of the country from night to Saturday, according to regional authorities and the police.
Fourteen people, including two children, died in the city of Poltava after a missile hit a residential building on the early Saturday, the local administration said. The authorities said that at least 17 people were injured when rescuers used cranes to comb the ruins of the burning building for survivors.
“On the fifth floor, a woman, my friend, took place,” said Poltava resident, Olena Svyryd. “She is not alive. It was crushed by the wall. There were many casualties. “
Three other people were killed during the weekend in the Sumy region, and one in Jharkiv, according to the Ukrainian authorities.
Each side accused the other of new attacks on Sunday. Ukraine said an older woman was killed in the Russian bombing of the Kherson region. Russia said two people died in attacks by Ukrainian unmanned airplanes against the Belgorod region.
Advances in the east
Moscow has been advancing on the battlefield for more than a year, and its invasion of Ukraine will reach this month this month.
The Russian army said on Saturday that his troops had “released” the Krymske village in the northeast suburbs of the city of Toretsk.
TORETSK in the East Region of Donetsk has been in view of the Kremlin for months, since its capture would allow Russia to obstruct the vital routes of Ukrainian supply.
Both Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, have said they are ready to talk about war, but none has said when or how.
Trump has been critical of the billions that Washington has passed Armando Ukraine, while threatening to impose additional sanctions on Russia if Putin does not reach an “agreement” to end the war.
Putin said last month that he was willing to hold conversations with Ukraine, but not with Zelensky, whom he called “illegitimate.”