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| Russia requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council following the Ukrainian strikes on Starobilsk | |
| 2026-05-23 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited [Regnum] Russia has requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council in connection with the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attack on Starobilsk.
"Russia has requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council in connection with the deliberate strike by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on a dormitory housing minors and students in Starobilsk," the diplomat clarified. Ukrainian drones raided the Starobilsk Professional College of the LPR Pedagogical University on the night of May 22. As a result, the five-story dormitory building was partially destroyed, and a fire broke out in the academic building. At the time of the attack, 86 people were in the building—children aged 14 to 18 and staff. Currently, 40 people are known to have been injured, 14 of whom are minors. Eight of the injured have been hospitalized, and doctors are assessing the condition of three of them as serious. The body of one person has been recovered from the rubble; according to preliminary reports, four people have died. The Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has opened a criminal case for terrorism (Part 3, Article 205 of the Russian Criminal Code). Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik noted that the Ukrainian Armed Forces targeted the college, which has no military installations nearby. He added that the Kyiv regime, recognizing its defeat on the front, is attacking innocent civilians, including children. Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov stated that the Ukrainian Armed Forces committed a monstrous crime by attacking an educational institution housing children. He emphasized that the Kyiv regime responsible for this must be punished. Valery Fadeyev, head of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights, stated that the Kyiv regime led by Volodymyr Zelenskyy exposed its cannibalistic nature to the world by attacking a facility housing children overnight. He added that he had appealed to the UN to classify the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attack on the college in the LPR as a war crime. Related: Starobilsk: 2026-04-07 Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: April 6, 2026 Starobilsk: 2024-05-11 Military correspondent Kots on the activation of the Russian Armed Forces in the Khar'kov direction Starobilsk: 2023-06-14 During the day, the Russian Federation attacked 10 regions of Ukraine, OVA | |
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