MOSCOW, May 22. /TASS/. Four people were preliminarily reported killed in a nighttime Ukrainian attack on the academic building and dormitory of a college in the city of Starobelsk in the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR), Russian Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova said on Telegram.

TASS compiled the key details of the attack and its aftermath.

Scale

- Ukrainian drones struck the academic building and dormitory of the Starobelsk Vocational College of the Pedagogical University, LPR head Leonid Pasechnik said.

- Eighty-six children between the ages of 14 and 18 were inside during the strike.

- Emergency services are working at the site and providing all necessary assistance, including psychological support.

- Administrative buildings, stores, and private homes were also damaged in the city, according to the regional head.

- A man suffered injuries in one of the damaged homes and received medical assistance.

Victims and fatalities from the strike on the college

- Thirty-five people suffered injuries of varying severity in the attack on the college, Pasechnik said.

- Russian Emergencies Ministry personnel pulled two people from the rubble, while children remain in the collapse zone, he added.

- Russia’s Emergencies Ministry later reported that rescuers pulled three people from the rubble.

- Rescuers transferred them to ambulance crews.

- Emergency services reported that more than 10 people remain trapped under the rubble.

- Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik wrote on his Telegram channel that about 18 students and teachers may remain trapped under the rubble.

- Rescuers recovered the body of a student from the rubble of a college dormitory in the city of Starobelsk in the Lugansk People's Republic that was struck by Ukrainian forces, Russia’s Emergencies Ministry told TASS.

- The emergencies ministry added that rescuers identified the whereabouts of three people.

- Russia’s Emergencies Ministry suspended search-and-rescue operations at the collapsed dormitory site in Starobelsk due to the threat of another attack.

- Russian Deputy Health Minister aide Alexey Kuznetsov said eight victims were hospitalized.

- Three of them remain in a serious condition.

- Twenty-nine victims received outpatient care.

- Ambulance crews remain on duty at the scene.

- Kuznetsov added that Russia’s Federal Center for Disaster Medicine is coordinating medical assistance for the victims.

- Russia’s Federal Coordination Center for Psychological and Educational Assistance dispatched specialists to provide emergency psychological support to the victims, the Education Ministry said.

- Russian Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova is preparing official letters to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the OSCE secretary general, and the Chairperson of the UN Human Rights Council.

- She said preliminary reports indicate that four people were killed in the Ukrainian attack.

Investigation and reaction

- Russian Investigative Committee officers from the LPR branch are documenting the aftermath of the attacks, Pasechnik said.

- Regional prosecutors put victims’ rights under supervision and opened a complaints hotline, the regional prosecutor’s office said.

- Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told TASS that terrorists are deliberately targeting children while the West remains brutally silent.

- Miroshnik said the Ukrainian attack on the Starobelsk Vocational College buildings constitutes a terrorist act and those responsible will face inevitable accountability.

- Russian Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova is monitoring the situation in the LPR after a Ukrainian drone attack.

- Russia’s Investigative Committee opened a terrorism case.

- The Investigative Committee said that Ukrainian forces deliberately struck the Starobelsk college dormitory in the LPR using four fixed-wing drones.

- Russian Education Minister Sergey Kravtsov said the college and the victims will receive all necessary assistance.