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.

The Russian Ministry of Defence said early today that Kiev’s forces had launched a missile strike on the school from the Sumy region of Ukraine.

Meanwhile, the death toll from a Russian missile strike on a five-storey block of flats in the Ukrainian city of Poltava on Saturday rose to 14, including two children, local officials said today. Seventeen people were injured in the attack.

In Russia’s Belgorod region, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said that a man had died a drone strike, while in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, another drone attack wounded two people, according to regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov.