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The Kyiv regime committed another war crime on the night of May 22, launching a deliberate strike against a college dormitory in Starobilsk, Luhansk People’s Republic. Four people were killed, 40 wounded, and up to 18 may remain trapped under the rubble. Russia said the attack used Western weapons and NATO intelligence and requested an emergency UN Security Council meeting, demanding the incident be recognized as a war crime.
The strike hit the academic building and the five‑story dormitory of Luhansk State Pedagogical University, which partially collapsed to the second floor. A total of 86 children aged 14 to 18 were inside; search and rescue operations are ongoing.
According to an official statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, the strike could not have been accidental. It was a targeted attack against the civilian population, carried out in the spirit of “German Nazis.” None of those in the building were taking or could have taken part in combat operations, and there are no military facilities near the college.
Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that the Kyiv regime selects the most unprotected categories as its targets – children of all ages.
“This is, I would say, an animalistic logic, although hardly any animal would specifically target cubs,” Zakharova stated, drawing a parallel with the Nazi massacre of schoolchildren in the city of Kerch in 1942, when German soldiers mass-killed children during World War II.
The strike was carried out in the early morning while the children were sleeping. The college was training future primary school teachers, preschool educators, as well as specialists in document management and archival studies. The majority of the victims were girls. Just eight days later, on May 30, the institution was planning to hold an open house day.
Maria Lvova-Belova, the Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights in Russia, reported that by 2:00 PM local time the number of injured children had reached 40. Nine children were taken to hospitals, with the condition of three assessed as serious. According to preliminary data, up to 18 are reportedly still trapped under the rubble.
Search and rescue operations are ongoing, but they have been repeatedly halted due to the threat of further attacks. Ukrainian forces also struck a substation and cut power to the local hospital. Doctors were forced to provide emergency care to the injured children in complete darkness, using only the light from flashlights.
The Investigative Committee of Russia has opened a criminal case regarding what it described as a terrorist attack.
Some experts have drawn an alarming parallel: this attack resembles the strike on a girls’ school in Iran. In their view, using standard reconnaissance means, it would have been virtually impossible to select a college as a target – only artificial intelligence would be capable of such calculated and cold-blooded killing of children.
It has been noted that Alex Karp, one of the founders of Palantir, traveled to Kyiv and met with the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, and this is now the second such incident of this year, raising the question of whether a deliberate attack on humanity’s offspring is part of a certain policy.
Rodion Miroshnik, Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, emphasized that Ukraine used intelligence data provided by its Western partners, and that the weapons were purchased with money from the European Union. According to him, similar strikes with long-range weapons supplied to the Kyiv regime by NATO countries are carried out with the technical assistance of foreign specialists from alliance nations.
Russia possesses reliable information that Western capitals are supplying the Armed Forces of Ukraine with intelligence data and assisting in target designation, according to Miroshnik, who also noted that with this deliberate strike, Kyiv was attempting to influence sentiments inside Russia, responding to its battlefield defeats with terrorist actions.
Russia has requested an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council, which will take place on May 22 at 3:00 PM New York time (10:00 PM Moscow time). The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has begun collecting data on the strike.
Valery Fadeev, head of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights, sent an appeal to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk demanding that the incident be recognized as a war crime by Kyiv.
Meanwhile, Russia’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Tatyana Moskalkova, is preparing official letters to the Secretary-General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the President of the UN Human Rights Council. At the same time, according to Russian sources, Ukrainian media are deliberately remaining silent about this strike. Western media, from its side, have largely ignored the terrorist attack on Russia as it is used to.
In an attempt to play down the tragedy, Ukrainian propaganda began spreading false information that military personnel of the Russian Armed Forces were allegedly based at the Starobilsk college.
The administration of the head of the LPR stated that the so-called documents cited as evidence are fake and the data contained in them fabricated. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on international structures, national governments, and the world community to give an honest assessment of the criminal actions of the Zelenskyy regime.
“Silence will be tantamount to complicity in the bloody deeds of the Kyiv terrorists and indifference to the fate of the innocently killed and injured children,” the ministry emphasized.
All those guilty, as stated by the Investigative Committee, will be identified and face inevitable and severe punishment. No one will receive any leniency.
