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Woman killed in reported Russian airstrike on care home in Ukraine-occupied Sudzha

Damage to the building in Sudzha following the reported Russian airstrike. Photo: Rodnaya Suzdha Telegram

Damage to the building in Sudzha following the reported Russian airstrike. Photo: Rodnaya Suzdha Telegram

A woman was killed in a Russian airstrike that hit a retirement home in the Ukrainian-occupied city of Sudzha in Russia’s western Kursk region, news agency RBC Ukraine reported on Sunday.

Oleksiy Dmytrashkivskyi, a spokesperson for Ukraine's military administration in the Kursk region, told RBC Ukraine that the Russian military had carried out two aerial strikes near the facility on Saturday evening, causing “significant” damage to the building.

The woman, who was severely injured in the attack, died in hospital from her injuries on Sunday morning, Dmytrashkivskyi added.

The Ukrainian military administration in the Kursk region must now decide what to do with the at least 70 other residents who were housed in the facility, Dmytrashkivskyi said, adding that as many of them were disabled, one option would be to relocate them to care facilities in Ukraine.

On Sunday morning, a Sudzha Telegram channel posted images showing the extent of the damage to the building, which had the Russian word for “people” painted on its outside wall.

In its daily briefing on Sunday, Russia’s Defence Ministry confirmed that it had carried out airstrikes against “enemy personnel and equipment” in Sudzha, as well as in other towns in the Kursk region and across the border in Ukraine’s Sumy region.

The city of Sudzha has been under Ukrainian control since August, when the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) launched a cross-border incursion into the Kursk region, taking the war to Russian territory for the first time.

While Russian forces have continued to retake Ukrainian-held villages in the region since then, the AFU announced on Sunday that it had launched a fresh offensive from Sudzha to strengthen its foothold in the region, pledging that Russia would “get what’s coming for it”.

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