KIEV and Moscow accused each other’s forces at the weekend of carrying out a deadly attack on a boarding school in Sudzha, a city in Russia’s Kursk region that has been under Ukrainian control for five months.

The General Staff of Ukraine’s military said on Saturday night that four people had been killed and a further four seriously wounded in the strike, with 84 people rescued by Ukrainian troops from the rubble of the building.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow had bombed the boarding school, where civilians were sheltering and preparing to evacuate.