Competing claims emerged over 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, with Ukraine and Russia accusing each other of carrying out the strike.

A Russian strike on a residential building in central Ukraine killed at least 14 people, including two children, emergency services said, one of many attacks across the country this weekend.

The Ukrainian army said four people were killed and dozens - many of them elderly - were injured in the town of Sudzha in the Kursk region, which has been under Ukrainian control for five months. More than 80 people are reported to have been rescued from the building.

Kyiv and Moscow traded blame Sunday for a strike on a school in a Ukrainian-occupied town in Russia's Kursk region after Washington urged compromises for peace.

Ukrainian forces on Sunday launched a new offensive inside Russia's western Kursk border region, going on the attack with substantial forces.

In a statement, Zelenskyy emphasised that the Russian authorities struck the building despite the fact that dozens of citizens seeking shelter in the building were from Russia