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Russia says 15 radical were inactive missing aft the Ukrainian drone attack
Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised retaliation aft accusing Ukraine of carrying retired a deadly onslaught connected a pupil dormitory successful an occupied portion of eastbound Ukraine.
He said six radical were killed and 39 injured aft the overnight drone onslaught successful the municipality of Starobilsk, Luhansk region. Another 15 radical were missing.
Kremlin-installed section officials published photos of a collapsed gathering and rescuers searching done the rubble.
Ukraine's subject said it deed the office of Russia's elite Rubicon drone subject portion successful Starobilsk.
The BBC has not been capable to independently verify what happened successful Starobilsk.
At a reception successful his Kremlin residence connected Friday, Putin said the Ukrainian onslaught was carried retired successful 3 waves utilizing 16 drones.
"There are nary subject facilities, quality work facilities, oregon related services successful the vicinity.
"Therefore, determination is perfectly nary ground for claiming that the munitions struck the gathering arsenic a effect of our aerial defence oregon physics warfare systems," Putin said.
He ordered the Russian subject to hole its "proposals" connected however to retaliate.
Russia's state-run TV showed what it said was 1 of the injured students, identifying her arsenic Diana Shovkun, aged 19.
No photos oregon videos of those who Moscow says were killed were shown.
Later connected Friday, Ukraine's subject admitted carrying retired the attack. It accused Rubicon fighters of regularly striking civilians and civilian infrastructure successful Ukraine.
The connection besides said that Ukrainian forces "are causing harm to subject infrastructure and facilities utilized for subject purposes, strictly adhering to the norms of planetary humanitarian law, laws and customs of war".
On Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the office of Russia's information work FSB was deed successful the Moscow-seized country of Ukraine's confederate Kherson region.
About 100 Russian "occupiers" were either killed oregon injured, helium added.
Moscow's subject has not commented connected the issue. But 1 pro-Kremlin Telegram transmission reported "casualties" aft what it said was a "massive drone strike".
Ukraine has repeatedly accused Russia's subject of deliberately targeting civilians since the commencement of Moscow's full-scale penetration successful 2022 - a complaint Moscow regularly denies.
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