Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kyiv blames Putin for school missile strike as Russian governor blown up by mine
Ukraine has accused Russia of launching a deadly missile strike that killed at least four people in the dormitory of a boarding school in Kursk.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said a Russian bomb destroyed the school building “even though dozens of civilians were there”. The school is located in a part of Kursk held by Ukrainian forces.
On the war front, Russia has marked its most senior casualty in the Ukraine war – a deputy governor of a region killed fighting in Ukraine.
Sergey Efremov, the deputy governor of Russia’s eastern region of Primorsky Krai, was killed after he returned to the Russian frontline from a battle with Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region. He was reportedly travelling in a car blown up by a landmine along with another Russian army officer.
It comes as Mr Zelensky said Nato membership for Ukraine would be a “great victory” for US president Donald Trump.
The Ukrainian president said joining the alliance would be the “cheapest” way of guaranteeing Kyiv’s security while also strengthening Mr Trump geopolitically.
