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Two people have been killed in a bomb blast by a Russian school in the Ukrainian village of Bilokhorivka, while another 60 remain in the rubble, fearing they may also be dead, Luhansk governor Serhiy Gaidai said today.
Gaidai noted that Russian forces dropped a bomb on a school where some 90 people had sought refuge on Saturday afternoon. Thirty have been rescued.
“Seven of them are injured,” Gaidai wrote in a Telegram post. “Sixty people may have died under the rubble of the buildings.”
At the same time, six civilians, including two children, were killed and 12 others were injured when Russian rockets hit the eastern Ukrainian city of Privila, officials said via Telegram.
It is impossible for this information to be verified independently.
At the same time, Ukrainian fighters at the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, the last stronghold of Russian forces in the city, vowed today to continue their resistance as long as they are alive.
“We will continue to fight as long as we are alive to repel the Russian occupiers,” said Sviatoslav Palamar, deputy commander of the Azov Order.
“We do not have much time, we are receiving intense bombardment,” he said, pleading with the international community to help evacuate wounded soldiers from the Mariupol factory.
The Ukrainians retreated from Popasna
Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of the Russian republic of Chechnya, said today that his troops had taken control of the town of Popasna in eastern Ukraine, which was confirmed by the governor of Lugansk.
Luhansk Governor Serhiy Gaidai told Ukrainian television that Ukrainian troops had retreated to more fortified positions, adding: “Everything has been destroyed there.”
In mid-April, Russian forces launched a new offensive focusing on eastern Ukraine, with the heaviest bombardment and attacks in recent times around Popasna in Lugansk province.
“Chechen special forces (…) fighters have taken control of most of Popasna,” Kadyrov told the Telegram. “The main streets and areas of the city have been completely cleared,” he added.
Zelenksi is “speechless” after the destruction of a museum dedicated to a poet
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that he had remained silent after a Russian bombing destroyed a museum dedicated to the 18th-century philosopher and poet Khrichy Skovorodas.
During a night raid in the village of Skovorodinivka in eastern Ukraine, the roof of the museum was hit, causing a fire in the building and injuring its 35-year-old guard. The most valuable items had already been removed from the museum for security reasons, said Kharkiv regional governor Olekh Sinegubov.
“Every day of this war the Russian army does something that leaves me speechless. But then, the next day, it does something else that makes you feel the same way again,” Zelensky commented in a nightly sermon last Saturday.
“Targeted attacks on museums – not even terrorists would think that. But we are fighting this kind of army,” he said.
Skovoroda, a Ukrainian of Cossack descent, spent the last years of his life in the village of Ivanovka, which was later renamed in honor of Skovorodinivka.
“This year marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of the great philosopher,” Sinegubov said in a post on social media. “But they will not destroy our memory and our values.”
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: 1.16 million Ukrainians fled to Russia
About 1.16 million Ukrainians have been evacuated from their homeland to Russia since the Russian military invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
That number includes about 205,000 children.
As of Friday alone, 18,580 people, including 1,840 children, had been transferred from Ukraine to Russia, according to Lt. Gen. Mikhail Mizinchev.
Kyiv argues that Moscow is involuntarily deporting Ukrainian citizens and not allowing them to return to the territories it controls. The Russian government denies this, claiming that the purpose of the civilian movements is to save them from hostilities, especially in the eastern part of the country.
Source: Capital
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