“As a result of a Russian attack on Bilohorivka, in the Luhansk region, about 60 people were killed, civilians, who were simply hiding in the school, sheltering from shelling,” Volodimir Zelensky said in his evening video address.
The governor of Lugansk province, one of the two that make up Donbass, said the attack set fire to the Bilogorivka village school, and rescuers found two bodies and pulled out 27 people alive.
“There were 90 people in total in the school, 27 were saved,” the governor, Sergi Gaidai, said on Telegram, according to the AFP news agency.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine left thousands dead and millions of refugees and is already the largest European armed conflict since World War II, whose end was commemorated today with Victory in Europe Day.
A day before the annual parade in Moscow to celebrate the Soviet Union’s victory over the Nazis, which is commemorated in Russia on May 9, Russian forces sought to complete the total capture of Mariupol, in Donetsk province.
An extensive steel plant was the only place in the port city or riverbanks sea of azov -part of the Black Sea- that was not under Russian control.
All women, children and other elderly civilians who were refugees in the Azovstal steelworks They finished being evacuated yesterday in a multi-day operation by the UN and the Red Cross in coordination with Russia and Ukraine.
The Ukrainian fighters who were still inside, sheltered in underground bunkers, reiterated that they refused to lay down their arms. Hundreds of them were believed to be wounded today. The Russian Army kept the plant surrounded.
“Surrendering is not an option, because Russia is not interested in our lives,” Ilya Somoilenko said.an intelligence officer from the Azov Battalion, the Ukrainian military unit holding out at the plant, at a video broadcast press conference.
Source: Ambito
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