“This is another crime of the Kiev regime, an attack on an educational center where minors and young people are.

It’s a monstrous crime,” the spokesperson told journalists in response to a request to comment on the attack.

Those responsible for this crime must be punished, he said in reference to the Kiev regime.

He also stressed that the most important thing now is to “remove the rubble and provide help to those still beneath it.”

Earlier, the governor of this Donbas territory that joined Russia in 2022, Leonid Pasechnik, denounced that Ukrainian troops attacked with drones the academic building and residence of a normal school in Starobelsk, where 86 minors were present.

At least four people were killed, more than 30 were injured with varying severity and others were trapped under the rubble.

Earlier this Friday, the Russian Research Committee opened a criminal case for terrorism following the Ukrainian drone attack on the student residence of the Starobelsk College of the Luhansk State Pedagogical University.

mem/gfa