"At the time of the attack, dozens of local residents were inside the building preparing to evacuate," Ukraine's military said on Feb. 1, adding that nearly 95 people could be trapped under the rubble.

A Russian strike targeted a nursing home in the Ukrainian-captured town of Sudzha in Russia's Kursk Oblast on Feb. 1, according to Ukraine's military. The building, which served as a shelter, primarily housed elderly residents.

Competing claims have 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