Ukraine and Russia also traded blame for a strike on a boarding school sheltering civilians in the Ukrainian-occupied town of Sudzha in Moscow’s Kursk region, where Kyiv launched a major cross-border assault last August.
Fighting in the nearly three-year war has shown no signs of de-escalating, despite US President Donald Trump’s promise to enact a ceasefire within “24 hours” of taking office on January 20.
Eleven of those, including a child, were killed by a missile that hit a residential building in the central city of Poltava, the local administration said.
“God saved us,“ said Olena Svyryd, a resident of a neighbouring building.
Kateryna Yamshchykova, acting mayor of Poltava, said rescue operations were ongoing.
‘Boarding school’ hit
Moscow responded Sunday by accusing Kyiv’s forces of launching the Sudzha attack.
The defence ministry did not mention any deaths, while Kursk region’s active governor Aleksandr Khinshtein said “there is no reliable information about the number of victims yet”.
“Russian aviation struck a boarding school in the town of Sudzha, Kursk region, with a guided aerial bomb,“ the Ukrainian military’s general staff said on Telegram.
It said “dozens of local residents were inside the building preparing to evacuate” at the time of the attack, and that rescue work was under way.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called Russia “devoid of civility”, sharing a video on social media showing a heavily damaged building, as well as a wounded man lying on the ground.
A Russian official in Kursk told AFP last week that authorities were working “constantly” to secure the return of Russian civilians caught behind the front lines.
Advances in east
The Russian military said Saturday its troops had “liberated” the village of Krymske in the northeastern suburbs of the city of Toretsk.
Both Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have said they are ready for talks on ending the war, but neither side has said when or how.
Putin said last month he was willing to hold talks with Ukraine, but not with Zelensky, whom he called “illegitimate”.
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