Putin held a meeting on assistance to victims in Starobilsk. The main thing

On June 1, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting on measures to support victims and the investigation into the terrorist attack committed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) at the Starobilsk College in the Luhansk People's Republic (LNR). All the details are in the Izvestia article.

Putin's meeting on measures to support victims

The meeting with Putin was attended by Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Alexander Gutsan, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova, Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin, head of the LPR Leonid Pasechnik, head of the Starobilsk municipal district of the LPR Vladimir Chernev.

Putin called the attack by Ukrainian militants on the college a bloody crime of the Ukrainian junta. The Russian leader also expressed his condolences to the families who lost their children and grandchildren in the terrorist attack by the Ukrainian army at the college in Starobilsk. The Head of State stressed that the punishment for the perpetrators of the terrorist attack would be inevitable.

Pasechnik stressed that the attack on the college was targeted. Ukrainian militants used 16 drones to attack the college and dormitory buildings. According to the head of the LPR, the rescue operation lasted 45 hours, during which time there was a threat of repeated attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine 15 times. Of the 89 people who were present at the time of the Ukrainian Armed Forces strike on the college in Starobilsk, 45 asked for help, 21 died.

The head of the region added that four families applied for payments for those killed in the Ukrainian Armed Forces attack on the college in the LPR. Three girls who suffered from the Ukrainian Armed Forces strike on the college are on the mend. The condition of another victim is assessed as extremely serious, his transportation to Moscow is impossible.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova noted that 70 people were injured in the attack by Ukrainian militants, seven of whom remain in hospitals. She added that the Social Fund, if necessary, will provide additional support to the families of the victims at the Starobilsk College, and rehabilitation will also be provided to the victims in federal centers.

Reaction to the Ukrainian Armed Forces terrorist attack

The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, announced on May 23 that the Russian Foreign Ministry was organizing a trip to the site of the tragedy in Starobilsk for foreign journalists accredited in Moscow. She added that the British broadcasting company BBC had refused to participate in the press tour, and the Japanese authorities had completely banned their media from covering the terrorist attack in the LPR.

Foreign journalists who arrived at the damaged children's facility were eventually banned from publishing reports from there. After that, Putin said that foreign journalists should be ashamed for suppressing information about the terrorist attack staged by Ukraine at the Starobilsk College. The Russian leader called the current situation a nightmare and a deception. To illustrate his words, he cited the example of foreign journalists' coverage of retaliatory attacks by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

Izvestia correspondent Stanislav Grigoriev, who accompanied a group of colleagues from other countries organized by the Russian Foreign Ministry, said that they had recorded all the consequences of the Ukrainian Armed Forces strikes. On the same day, Al Arabiya's chief correspondent Saad Khalaf thanked Moscow for the opportunity to visit Starobilsk and see the truth about the events in the LPR there.

Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations (UN) Vasily Nebenzia pointed out on May 28 that the brutality with which the Kiev regime attacked children at a college in Starobilsk can be compared with the actions of the Nazis. The Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, Yana Lantratova, said earlier that day that the call to investigate the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) on Starobilsk and bring the perpetrators to justice, addressed by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk, was fundamentally important. She also thanked the international journalists who visited Starobilsk in the Luhansk People's Republic (DPR) at the invitation of the Russian Foreign Ministry, who were not afraid to tell the truth about what happened.

Details of the Kiev militants' attack on the college

On May 22, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the academic building and the dormitory of the Starobilsk College. A criminal case was opened into the attack under Part 3 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Terrorist act"). In the LPR, May 24 and 25 were declared days of mourning for the dead.

In a conversation with Izvestia, eyewitnesses of the impact said that after the first blow, the students were covered by a shock wave, bricks and dust rained down on them. The girl ran outside and hid under a bench when she heard the sound of a second drone. Later, together with other students, she tried to get away from the college building engulfed in fire. According to the girl, the students hid under the trees and tried to run to a safe place.

Putin called the attack on the college dormitory a terrorist attack. He also noted that the attack was not related to the military infrastructure, as there is none in the area.

Later it became known that in the building of the Starobilsk college, which was attacked by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, there was a shelter equipped for students at number 11762, but not everyone had time to use it due to the night time. On the night of the tragedy, everything happened so quickly that few people managed to reach the shelter.