MOSCOW, May 12. /TASS/. The death toll from the Ukrainian military’s attack on a college in Starobelsk has risen to 12, a Russian Emergencies Ministry official told TASS.

"A total of 48 people were affected; 12 of them were killed," the official said.

According to the ministry, nine more people remain under the rubble.

The Ukrainian military launched drones at the academic building and dormitory of the Lugansk Pedagogical University’s Vocational College in the city of Starobelsk in the early hours of May 22. As many as 86 students aged from 14 and 18 years were inside at the time of the attack.