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.
The Ukrainian Air Force said on Sunday that four people were killed in an attack the previous day on a three-storey former school building sheltering evacuated civilians, with dozens more fished from the rubble.
Across Ukraine, at least 15 people were killed as Russian strikes pummelled the centre and east of the country overnight Friday into Saturday, according to regional authorities and police.
Officials said at least 16 people were wounded as rescuers used cranes to comb the ruins of the smouldering building for survivors.
“She’s not alive. She was crushed by the wall. There were a lot of casualties.”
‘Boarding school’ hit
“Russian aviation carried out a strike using a guided aerial bomb on a place of temporary residence of the civilian population,“ the Ukrainian Air Force said Sunday.
The Air Force put the toll at four dead, four seriously wounded and 80 rescued.
“On February 1, the Ukrainian Armed Forces committed another war crime by launching a targeted missile strike on a boarding school in the city of Sudzha,“ said a statement from Russia’s defence ministry.
Kyiv launched a surprise operation into the Kursk region last August, seizing dozens of villages and small towns, including the regional hub of Sudzha -- home to about 6,000 people before the fighting.
“They destroyed the building even though dozens of civilians were there,“ Zelensky said in a post on X. “Russian bombs destroy Ukrainian homes the same way. And even against their own civilians, the Russian army uses similar tactics.”
Thousands are thought to be trapped by fighting in the border region.
Moscow has been advancing on the battlefield for over a year, and its invasion of Ukraine will this month hit the three-year mark.
Toretsk in the eastern Donetsk region has been in the Kremlin’s sights for months, as its capture would enable Russia to obstruct vital Ukrainian supply routes.
Trump has been critical of the billions Washington has spent arming Ukraine, while threatening to impose additional sanctions on Russia if Putin does not reach a “deal” to end the war.
Putin said last month he was willing to hold talks with Ukraine, but not with Zelensky whom he called “illegitimate”.
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