Competing claims have emerged over a deadly attack on a boarding school in Sudzha, a city in Russia's Kursk region under Ukrainian control.

As a result of Friday's strike on the command post in Rylsk, Kursk region, the Russians lost dozens of key officers. Not only their own but also North Korean officers, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an interview for the Associated Press.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has revealed that a Ukrainian defence forces strike on a Russian military command post in Russia's Kursk Oblast resulted in the deaths of dozens of officers, both Russian and North Korean.

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.

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.

Ukraine’s General Staff says attack killed four, while Russian Foreign Ministry blames countries supplying Kyiv with weapons - Anadolu Ajansı

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