More Than 50 Foreign Journalists Are on Their Way to Site of Ukraine’s Attack in Starobelsk
13:04 24.05.2026 (Updated: 13:10 24.05.2026)
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Twenty-one students died and dozens more were injured as a result of the Ukrainian drone attack on a high school building and a dormitory in Starobelsk, the Lugansk People's Republic, on Friday night.
“Today, media representatives from 19 countries arrived in the Lugansk People’s Republic: Austria, Brazil, Britain, Hungary, Venezuela, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Qatar, China, Cuba, Lebanon, the UAE, Pakistan, the United States, Turkiye, Finland, and France," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
Tokyo prohibited its journalists from taking part in the trip. The BBC officially declined. CNN is on vacation”, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said.
On the night of May 22, Ukraine attacked an academic building and dormitory at the Starobelsk Professional College, which is part of the Lugansk State Pedagogical University. There were 86 students and an employee in the building at the time.
