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TexasTowelie

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Sun May 8, 2022, 06:21 AM May 2022

Dozens Feared Dead as Russian Shell Hits Ukrainian School

Dozens of Ukrainians were feared dead Sunday after a Russian bomb destroyed a school sheltering about 90 people in the basement as Moscow's invading forces kept up their barrage of cities, towns and villages in eastern and southern Ukraine.

The governor of Luhansk province, one of two areas that make up the eastern industrial heartland known as the Donbas, said the school in the village of Bilohorivka caught fire after Saturday's bombing. Emergency crews found two bodies and rescued 30 people, he said.

“Most likely, all 60 people who remain under the rubble are now dead,” Gov. Serhiy Haidai wrote on the Telegram messaging app. Russian shelling also killed two boys, ages 11 and 14, in the nearby town of Pryvillia, he said.

Since failing to capture Ukraine's capital, Russia has focused its offensive in the Donbas, where Moscow-backed separatists have been fighting since 2014 and occupy some territory. The largest European conflict since World War II has developed into a punishing war of attrition due to the Ukrainian military's unexpectedly effective defense.

Read more: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/last-women-and-children-evacuated-from-ukrainian-steel-mill/2962193/

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Dozens Feared Dead as Russian Shell Hits Ukrainian School (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2022 OP
Support the guy that supports the guy bombing schools and hospitals? czarjak May 2022 #1
Awful, they are happiest when they hit schools, hospitals, churches, theaters Raine May 2022 #2

Raine

(30,540 posts)
2. Awful, they are happiest when they hit schools, hospitals, churches, theaters
Sun May 8, 2022, 07:44 AM
May 2022

anywhere that decent people are taking refuge. Absolute monsters being urged on by an ego driven insane idiot!

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