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RUSSIA, UKRAINE – FIGHTING
Around 60 people were killed after a bomb hit a school in east Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. Earlier, the governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Haidai, said 90 people had been sheltering in the building in Bilohorivka, and 30 were rescued. Haidai said a Russian plane had dropped the bomb on Saturday. BBC News reports.
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned the attack on the school building in Bilohorivka. “This attack is yet another reminder that in this war, as in so many other conflicts, it is civilians that pay the highest price,” Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said in a statement on behalf of the U.N. chief. UN News Centre reports.
The Ukrainian military says that Russia is holding back some of its forces within its borders to prevent a Ukrainian counterattack that has made some headway east of Kharkiv. In its latest operational update, the armed forces’ general staff says that “in order to prevent the advance of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the enemy has concentrated up to nineteen battalion tactical groups in the Belgorod region” of Russia. Tim Lister reports for CNN.
Ukrainian counterattacks northeast of Kharkiv have likely forced Russian troops to redeploy to Kharkiv instead of reinforcing stalled Russian offensive operations elsewhere in eastern Ukraine, the Washington-based think-tank the Institute for the Study of War has said in an assessment. Russian forces are continuing their attempt to reach the borders of Donestk and Luhansk but have not made any significant gains since securing Popasna on Saturday.
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