Sixty people have been killed after a village school in eastern Ukraine took a direct hit in a Russian air raid, with rescue attempts said by the regional governor to be impossible due to constant shelling.

Russian attacks in the east and south intensified at the weekend, with the Black Sea city of Odesa coming under repeated missile strikes and the remaining Ukrainian fighters in the Azovstal steelworks in the besieged port city of Mariupol staging a press conference on Sunday saying they had been “abandoned” by the government as Russian attacks continued

About 90 people had been using the school in Bilohorivka, a village 60 miles (97km) north-west of the Russian-controlled city of Luhansk, as a shelter after the previous place of refuge, a club house, had been destroyed in an earlier attack.

Serhiy Gaidai, the Luhansk governor, told the Guardian he believed the 30 people who escaped had been outside in the grounds of the building. He said he had little hope for those who were under rubble.

“Unfortunately, they are probably dead,” he said. “Because the building collapsed. Besides, an air bomb is not a missile, its explosion produces extremely high temperatures. That’s why most likely people haven’t survived.”

Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, has stated he intends to take the eastern Luhansk and Donetsk regions by 9 May when Russia marks Victory Day and the defeat of Nazi Germany.

In an address to mark Ukraine’s 8 May remembrance and reconciliation day, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said his country paid homage to all those who helped defeat Adolf Hitler but accused Russia of repeating his crimes.

He said: “Every year on 8 May, together with the entire civilised world, we honour everyone who defended the planet from Nazism during world war two. Millions of lost lives, crippled destinies, tortured souls and millions of reasons to say to evil: never again!

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Putin has blood on his hands, this is needless and senseless war that will not benefit both sides.

No weapon can defeat the power of human will, though Ukraine has suffered great losses both human and infrastructure but they've refused to capitulate

Why invading Ukraine that even US and Europe won't accept their NATO membership due to obvious reasons.

If putin truly cares about Russia's security, then I think invading Latvia Lithuania and Estonia would have been wiser because these are NATO countries bordering Russia

You can't be sending missiles from civilian populated areas and expect the Russians not to retaliate.

The Ukrainian military is behaving like militias in Gaza who will fire missiles from school buildings and hospitals into Israel and cry out loud when the Israeli military retaliate by striking the locations the missiles were launched from in Gaza

Why all the destructions

Who de breathe there?

Parachoko:
You can't be sending missiles from civilian populated areas and expect the Russians not to retaliate.

The Ukrainian military is behaving like militias in Gaza who will fire missiles from school buildings, hospitals in Gaza and cry out loud when the Israeli military strike the locations the missiles were launched in Gaza

Easier to say when it's not your relative or families

If them carry other people dead body e go be like a firewood to a stranger

Datikwerreboi:

Easier to say when it's not your relative or families

If them carry other people dead body e go be like a firewood to a stranger

I doubt you understand all what I wrote up there

You need to comprehend what you read before replying.

Where are the deads,it is impossible for school to be in session in a war ravaged country.

Datikwerreboi:

Easier to say when it's not your relative or families

If them carry other people dead body e go be like a firewood to a stranger

But it must be said.

I am just tired of this Russia and Ukraine conflict .... to what end

War.

That is all russian army can do, hit schools and hospitals.

God1000:
Putin has blood on his hands

who does not?

Dalil8:
Before you blame the Russians, take a look at Ukraine's Aidar Regiment hiding in a kindergarten.

Now tell me why there won't be civilian casualties when Russia decides to shell the kindergarten.

War is about deception. The end goal here is that Ukraine just wants The West and Rest of the World to believe that Russia committed acts of war crimes...

Smart move from the government, but not so smart sacrificing the lives of civilians when shelling from civilian occupied areas.

Politics and war are very similar and all most the same thing.
Propaganda on both side to gain support and sympathy and create hatred for the other party.
In the case of Russia,their language isn’t helping to spread their own propaganda… so we rarely hear them:
Ukraine propaganda is manage by world best media houses.
Misinformation and remixes information have one purpose….
I sympathize with real Ukrainian who their daily lives are now in jeopardy.
It’s sad what zelensky has brought on this people… while he and his family lives in bunker with US Army protection.

Pathetic and sad, how I wish the war can come to an end quickly, peace is all we need

Let there be peace

Dalil8:
Before you blame the Russians, take a look at Ukraine's Aidar Regiment hiding in a kindergarten.

Now tell me why there won't be civilian casualties when Russia decides to shell the kindergarten.

Your propaganda won't fly as the two buildings are not connected atall. And your first pic is a several weeks old picture, that first pic house was claimed to have been destroyed by Russia hypersonic missile.

Russia forces are Dumb when it comes to bombing, no precision at all.

Udonminit

Putin is a damn niggarr

Even the elite and world powers can't resolve their difference's amicably.

Johnnycastro18:
Pathetic and sad, how I wish the war can come to an end quickly, peace is all we need

for where?

Civilians or combatants?

God why!

Oluwaoo . What is this

Mossadd:
for where?

Lols, vawulence be calming down now.....haven't we experience enough vawulence in this war already, let us give peace a chance.

There is more to this war

Even US Nato

God1000:
Putin has blood on his hands