The head of the Luhansk Oblast State Administration, Serhiy Haidai, said 60 people had been killed in an airstrike on a school in the Bilohorivka village. Almost all locals were hiding there from the Russian shelling.
He wrote about this on his Telegram channel.
Haidai said that the blockages are being dismantled. About 90 people were hiding in the school.
Rescuers were able to save 30 people and have already found the bodies of two dead.
"About 60 residents died. The final number of victims will be clarified when the blockages are dismantled. Rescuers have been working since dawn," he said.
- On the evening of May 7, the Russian military dropped an air bomb on a school in Belohorivka, a village near Lysychansk in Luhansk oblast. Almost 100 locals hid there.