10 minutes agoZelensky: 60 killed after the bomb hit a school
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)At least 60 people were killed by bomb attacks at a school in eastern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said late Sunday. The governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Hasai, said 90 people had been sheltered in the building in Bilopreska and 30 were saved. Hasai said a Russian plane dropped the bomb on Saturday. [...]
The governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Hasai, said 90 people had been sheltered in the building in Bilopreska and 30 were saved. Hasai said a Russian plane dropped the bomb on Saturday.
Much of the region has been under the control of separatists backed by Russia for the past eight years.
Bilohorivka is near the city of Severodonnetsk, controlled by the government, where fierce fighting in the suburbs was reported on Saturday. A Ukrainian newspaper, Ukrayinska Pravda, says the village became a <x0) hotpot” during fighting last week.
The blast broke down the building, which caught fire and the firefighters took three hours to extinguish the flames, according to the governor, writing on the telegram.
He said almost the entire village had been sheltered in the school basement.
The final number of the dead will be known only when the ruins have been cleared, the governor said.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said it was the terrified “” from the deadly attack, adding: “civils must always be spared in wartime times”.
