Serhiy Haidai, the governor of the Luhansk region, said 90 people had been sheltering in the school's basement when the building was hit.
"The fire was put out after almost four hours, then the debris was cleared and, unfortunately, the bodies of the two victims were found," he wrote.
A final death toll will emerge when the rubble is cleared, but Haidai said that"most likely, all 60 people who remained under the rubble of buildings died." The governor also said that two boys, aged 11 and 14, had been killed in Russian strikes in the town of Pryvillia, while a 69-year-old woman and two girls, aged 8 and 12, were seriously injured.
A destroyed house is pictured in the village of Yatskivka, eastern Ukraine on April 16, 2022. Up to 60 people are feared dead after Russian shelling destroyed a school in Ukraine's Luhansk region."These are the real atrocities of the 'Russian world': the cynical shelling of a school with a bomb shelter, the murder of children in Pryvillia. The Russians don't care who they kill.
In another post, Haidai said Russian shelling in the village of Shypilovo had struck a building where 11 people has ben sheltering.has contacted the Russian Foreign Ministry for comment.Western intelligence reports have suggested that Russian President
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