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At least six people have been killed, 15 remain missing, and dozens more – most of them minors – have been injured in what President Vladimir Putin has described as a deliberate Ukrainian “terrorist attack” on a school dormitory in Russia’s Lugansk People’s Republic.

The attack on the main academic building and dormitory of the Starobelsk Professional College, which teaches students aged 14 to 18, was carried out in three waves, with 16 drones launched at the same target by the “neo‑Nazi regime in Kiev,” according to Putin.

Governor Leonid Pasechnik said 86 students were inside the facility at the time of the attack. 

Russia’s Human Rights Ombudsperson Yana Lantratova cited preliminary reports that at least four people were killed in the incident.

Emergency services reported recovering one body before pausing the operation due to concerns of a “double tap” Ukrainian strike.