The Ukrainian forces deliberately targeted a boarding school in Sudzha, according to the Russian Defense Ministry
The Ukrainian forces have launched a targeted missile attack on a boarding school in the city of Sudzha in Russia’s Kursk Region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday. The Russian air defenses detected multiple missiles fired from Ukraine’s Sumy Region towards Sudzha on Saturday, according to the ministry. “The Ukrainian Armed Forces strike on a civilian facility in Sudzha demonstrated the terrorist, inhuman nature of those in power in Kiev,” the Defense Ministry stressed in its statement early Sunday. Kiev launched its incursion into the Russian region on August 6, seizing some territory but failing to advance deeper. The town of Sudzha, home to some 5,000 people, was arguably the biggest prize for the thousands of Kiev’s best-trained troops armed with Western equipment. Since taking the settlement a number of press tours for foreign outlets have been organized, with reporting focused on Russian civilians who could not evacuate from the war zone in time.
Earlier this month, Russian forces liberated another Kursk Region’s settlement of Russkoye Porechnoye, some 10 kilometers north of the still-occupied Sudzha, where they discovered multiple decomposing corpses of civilians stashed in basements throughout the village. On Friday, the Russian Investigative Committee released new evidence on the massacre, including footage of the interrogation of one of the suspected perpetrators. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the images released by the investigators “impossible to watch,” and condemned the perpetrators for deliberately targeting vulnerable people.
“What kind of inhuman being tortures elderly civilians, beats them, injures them, and then blows them up with grenades?” she asked, referring to the forensic evidence uncovered in the village. “The world must understand who the Westerners are sponsoring and that with Western money, with these hundreds of billions of dollars and euros, the Kiev regime is committing these atrocities, which testify to its neo-Nazi nature.” The Defense Ministry said that the latest Ukrainian provocation in Sudzha “is aimed at distracting attention from the atrocities of the Kiev regime in the Kursk settlement of Russian Porechnoye.”
