Ukrainian governor of Lugansk province Sergii Gaidai said the attack set fire to a school in the town of Bilogorivka and rescuers pulled out 27 people alive. Meanwhile, they found two bodies and searched for dozens of missing persons.
“There were 90 people in the school. Most likely 60 people who were there have died,” he added. Zelensky confirmed those deaths last night.
other attacks
The official added that two boys aged 11 and 14 were killed in another Russian attack in the neighboring town of Privillia.
Also, 11 people were trapped in the rubble of a building bombed on Saturday night by Russian forces in the town of Shipilivka, in Luhansk province, said the head of the local administration, Sergii Gaidai.
symbolic date
The Russian invasion of Ukraine that began on February 24 left thousands dead and millions of refugees and is already the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II, whose end with the Allied victory was commemorated yesterday.
A day before the annual parade in Moscow to celebrate the victory against the Nazis, which is remembered in Russia on May 9, Russian forces yesterday sought to complete the total capture of the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, located in the southeast of the country, on the sea of Azov.
A large steel plant is the only place in the port town that is not yet under Russian control. All the women, children and other elderly civilians sheltering at the Azovstal steelworks were finished being evacuated on Saturday in a multi-day UN and Red Cross operation.
The Ukrainian fighters of the Azov neo-Nazi battalion who are still inside, sheltered in underground bunkers, reiterated yesterday that they will not lay down their arms despite being surrounded.
Source: Ambito
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