Missile Strike Destroys Lyceum in Odesa Region, Leaving Two Dead
MoscowTimes.ru in English
Russian forces launched a missile strike on June 23 against the city of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi in the Odesa region, resulting in the destruction of a local lyceum and the deaths of two people, according to regional authorities. The attack, believed to have involved ballistic missiles, occurred at about 2:35 p.m. local time.
The regional prosecutor’s office indicated that additional casualties may be trapped under the debris. Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reported that at least 14 people were injured in the strike, including two teenagers who were passing by the building at the time. The service stated that dog handlers and psychologists were present at the scene and that information about possible victims under the rubble was being clarified.
President Volodymyr Zelensky described the attack as an “absolutely insane strike” on the lyceum in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi and noted that most of those injured were staff members, as students are currently on summer break.
Zelensky said that none of these Russian strikes is random, asserting that the Russian military knows its targets and that these are demonstrative attacks. He emphasized that the Russian leadership does not intend to change course or voluntarily end the war, and called for a “real and painful” increase in international pressure and sanctions on Russia.
According to the “Dumskaya. Odesa. War in Ukraine” channel, those killed in the attack were the deputy principal and the facilities manager of the lyceum. Three people injured in the strike were hospitalized in critical condition, including an 11th-grade graduate and Ukrainian boxing champion.
Russian forces have frequently carried out missile and drone attacks on civilian sites in Ukraine while stating that only military targets are struck. On June 19, President Vladimir Putin said that the Russian Armed Forces’ strike in Kyiv’s Solomianskyi district on June 17, which killed 24 people in an apartment building, was “a strike on defense-industrial facilities: on factories that produce military equipment.”
This article was generated using automatic translation tools and may contain some stylistic inaccuracies.
Original article: RU