MOSCOW, May 27. /TASS/. The international affairs committee of the Russian parliament’s lower chamber, the State Duma, has drafted an address to the United Nations over the deadly Ukrainian attack on the town of Starobelsk and has submitted it to lawmakers for consideration, the committee’s head Leonid Slutsky has told reporters.

"The committee on international affairs has drafted and submitted [to the State Duma] a request to the United Nations and national parliaments with a call to condemn the attack on the pedagogical college in Starobelsk. This barbaric act of terror and a military crime, committed by Ukraine’s neo-Nazi regime against civilians, has no statute of limitations. A total of 21 people died, mostly teenage girls aged between 14 and 18. Over 60 people were wounded," he said.

Slutsky emphasized that silence and inaction "will, in fact, be tantamount to direct complicity in the atrocities committed by Ukrainian neo-Nazis."

The Ukrainian military launched drones at the academic building and dormitory of the Lugansk State 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. According to the latest official reports, 21 people were killed and over 40 more wounded. According to LPR Head Leonid Pasechnik, up to 65 children were injured in the attack.