Ukraine school blast; Sixty feared dead

ZAPORIZHZHIA: Almost 60 people are feared in the Ukraine school blast, the regional governor said on Sunday. While Russian forces continued shelling the last holdout of Ukrainian resistance in the ruined southeastern port of Mariupol.

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Luhansk region Governor Serhiy Gaidai said the school in Bilohorivka. Where about 90 people sheltering, hit by a Russian bomb, setting it ablaze. “Thirty people evacuated from the rubble, seven of whom injured. Sixty people likely to have died,” Gaidai also wrote on the Telegram messaging app, adding that two bodies had found.

Reuters could not immediately verify his account. There was no response from Moscow to the report. Ukraine and its Western allies have accused Russian forces of targeting civilians in the war, something that Moscow denies.

In Mariupol, the deputy commander of the Azov regiment holed up in the sprawling Azovstal steel plant pleaded with the international community to help evacuate wounded soldiers. We will continue to fight as long as we are alive to repel the Russian occupiers. Captain Sviatoslav Palamar told an online news conference.

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As the fighting, now in its third month, raged on, with authorities in the eastern Kharkiv region reporting more casualties of Russian shelling. Leaders of the Group of Seven industrial nations vowed to deepen Russia’s economic isolation a campaign against Kremlin-linked elites.

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US President Joe Biden and other G7 leaders held a video call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a show of unity ahead of Russia’s Victory Day celebrations on Monday. The G7 said it committed to phasing out or banning Russian oil and denounced President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.