Russians strike nursing home in Sudzha, trapping 95 its own citizens under rubble – Ukrainian military commandant’s office
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow bombed a boarding school in Sudzha, a Ukrainian-controlled town in Kursk Oblast, on February 1, 2025, where civilians were sheltering and preparing to evacuate.
According to Oleksii Dmytrashkivskyy, press officer of the temporary military commandant’s office on the Ukraine-controlled territory of the Russian Federation, 95 people remain trapped beneath the rubble.
On 1 February 2025, at 17:54, the Russian Armed Forces struck a nursing home in the town of Sudzha. 95 people are now trapped under the rubble. People’s moans and screams can be heard from under the rubble.
“I would like to remind you that most of them are elderly and bedridden. The military commandant’s office forces are now conducting search and rescue operations,” Dmytrashkivskyy said.
The Ukrainian army said at least four people were killed. More than 80 people are reported to have been rescued from the building.
Zelensky posted on X that the incident exposed Russia as “a state devoid of civility”.
“This is how Russia wages war – Sudzha, Kursk region, Russian territory, a boarding school with civilians preparing to evacuate,” he wrote.
The Russian defence ministry said Ukraine carried out Saturday’s attack, which it described as a targeted missile strike.
The Ukrainian Air Force has published screenshots from the “Virazh-tablet” system showing the flight trajectory of a Russian guided aerial bomb over Sudzha in Russia’s Kursk region.

According to the statement, at about 6 PM on February 1, Russian aviation launched an attack using a guided air bomb on the temporary residence of civilians (7 Lenina Street, Sudzha, Russia) – a three-story building of a former boarding school, which housed 86 civilians of the local population and an outpost of the National Police of Ukraine with four policemen.
“Hitting civilians with bombs is the hallmark of Russian criminals! Even when the civilians are locals, Russians. Traditionally, numerous Russian public pages accuse Ukraine of the attack. It won’t work! There is irrefutable evidence and the results of objective control that the strike was carried out by Russian tactical aviation,” the Ukrainian Air Force states.
The General Staff of Ukraine reported that as of 22:00, works to dismantle rubble and provide assistance to the affected civilians.
By way of background, Russian Armed Forces struck a residential building in the city of Poltava on February 1, 2025, killing at least 11 civilians and injuring 17 others.
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