Russia blames Ukraine, vows retaliation as 16 killed in strike on student dorm - BERITAJA

The decease toll from a drone onslaught connected a student dorm successful the Russian-controlled Luhansk region of eastbound Ukraine has risen to 16, pinch about of the victims young women, Russian officials said connected Saturday, aft a heated ⁠U.N. statement connected the incident.

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his subject to hole options for retaliation against Ukraine connected Friday aft Moscow accused Kyiv of what it described arsenic a deliberate drone onslaught connected a assemblage successful the municipality of Starobilsk.

Ukraine’s subject denied work for the attack, saying it had struck an elite drone bid portion successful the area and that its ⁠forces complied pinch world humanitarian law. Putin said location were ​no ⁠military accommodation successful the area.

Reuters was not capable to independently verify what happened.

At the segment connected Saturday, a crane was moving to region rubble from a yawning spread successful the ⁠building. Inside 1 shattered classroom, bricks and particulate covered rows of student desks pinch “I emotion English” written connected ​the wall. ⁠Elsewhere, a stairwell was blocked by debris.

Russia’s state-run news agency RIA reported the decease toll had risen to 16, citing the emergency ministry. Five group remained trapped nether the rubble.

Leonid Pasechnik, caput of the Russian-installed management successful ‌the region, published a preliminary database containing specifications of 11 victims, ‌most of them 19-year-old women.

A section resident said rockets had targeted a erstwhile guidelines and drones had past deed the student dorm, causing fires to break out.

At an emergency gathering of the U.N. Security Council called by Russia connected Friday, Russia accused Ukraine of war crimes ⁠over the incident while Ukraine said it was a baseless declare that had not been independently verified.

Several countries called for entree to the site, while U.N. officials decried each attacks connected civilians, recalling a Russian rocket onslaught connected a U.N. storage successful Ukraine this week that had killed 2 workers and destroyed $1 cardinal worthy of aid.

Thousands of Ukrainians person been killed successful aerial strikes acold from the mostly fixed beforehand statement crossed the southeast of the country, about a 5th of which is controlled by Russian forces.

Russia has targeted Ukraine’s powerfulness ‌supplies and infrastructure while Ukraine has stepped up attacks connected lipid accommodation wrong Russia this year, ​sometimes resulting successful casualties. Both sides contradict targeting civilians.

Falling debris from drones triggered a occurrence astatine ‌an lipid terminal successful Russia’s Black Sea larboard ⁠of Novorossiysk and 2 group were injured, Russian officials said early connected Saturday.

Ukraine’s subject said it ⁠had deed Russia’s Sheskharis Black Sea lipid terminal successful Novorossiysk and adjacent Grushova lipid depot while President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the subject had ‌also deed a ample chemic works ​in Russia’s Perm region.

Perm location politician Dmitry Makhonin ‌said earlier that an business facility, which he did ​not name, had been targeted by Ukrainian drones but that they had been changeable down and caused nary damage.