Russian strike on Ukrainian school kills 'about 60': Zelensky

About 60 people were killed when Russian forces struck a school in eastern Ukraine on Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.

A rally in support of Ukraine held in Brussels, Belgium on Sunday, May 8, 2022.

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"As a result of a Russian strike on Bilohorivka in the Luhansk region, about 60 people were killed, civilians, who simply hid at the school, sheltering from shelling," Zelensky said in a video message late on Sunday.

60 people are estimated to have been killed by the Russian airstrike on a school in Bilohorivka (Luhansk Obl) on 7 May

Firefighters had worked to extinguish the resulting fire for 4 hours. 30 ppl were evacuated from the rubble - Luhansk RegHead Haidai
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Earlier, the governor of the Luhansk region, said that about 90 people were sheltering at the school, the Reuters news agency reported.

🎥Russia's bombing of a school in the eastern Ukrainian village of Bilohorivka killed two people and left 60 in the debris feared dead, the governor of the Luhansk region said on Sunday.

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United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres was quoted as saying that he was "appalled by the reported attack on 7 May which hit a school in Bilohorivka, Ukraine, where many people were apparently seeking shelter from the ongoing fighting."

UN Secretary-General António Guterres is "appalled by the reported attack on 7 May which hit a school in Bilohorivka, Ukraine, where many people were apparently seeking shelter from the ongoing fighting"https://t.co/cDc1Qa1tms

— Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) May 9, 2022

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Source: IAR, PAP, Reuters