{"id":57886,"date":"2026-05-23T15:43:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T15:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=57886"},"modified":"2026-05-23T16:17:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:17:56","slug":"russia-says-at-least-18-killed-in-ukrainian-strike-on-college-dormitory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=57886","title":{"rendered":"Russia says at least 18 killed in Ukrainian strike on college dormitory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CNN:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russian President Vladimir\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/23\/europe\/russia-battlefield-losses-pressure-estonia-spy-chief-intl\">Putin<\/a>\u00a0has ordered retaliation to a deadly Ukrainian attack on what he said was a college dormitory in an occupied town which authorities say killed at least 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putin accused Ukraine of a \u201cterrorist\u201d act after Ukrainian drones struck the dormitory in Starobilsk, an occupied town in eastern Luhansk on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Russian president added that he had ordered the defense ministry to come up with proposals for a response to the Ukrainian strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Russian state news agency Tass said Saturday that the death toll of \u201cchildren killed in the Ukrainian drone strike\u201d had risen to 18, citing Russia\u2019s Ministry of Emergency Situations. A further three people are believed to be trapped under the rubble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such a toll from a Ukrainian attack would be very rare so far from the front lines and not targeting any obvious military facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Ukraine\u2019s military rejected Putin\u2019s claim and accused Russian media of circulating \u201cmanipulative information\u201d on the attack. It reiterated that it strikes \u201cmilitary infrastructure and facilities used for military purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The military added that among targets struck early Friday was \u201cone of the headquarters of the \u2018Rubicon\u2019 unit in the Starobilsk area.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The elite&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/11\/22\/europe\/russia-rubicon-unit-drone-revolution-ukraine-intl-cmd\">Rubicon<\/a>&nbsp;Center for Advanced Unmanned Technologies has pioneered Russian drone technology and targeting since it was formed in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN: Russian President Vladimir\u00a0Putin\u00a0has ordered retaliation to a deadly Ukrainian attack on what he said was a college dormitory in an occupied town which authorities say killed at least 18. Putin accused Ukraine of a \u201cterrorist\u201d act after Ukrainian drones struck the dormitory in Starobilsk, an occupied town in eastern Luhansk on Friday. The Russian president added that he had ordered the defense ministry to come up with proposals for a response to the Ukrainian strike. The Russian state news agency Tass said Saturday that the death toll of \u201cchildren killed in the Ukrainian drone strike\u201d had risen to 18,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57888,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57886\/revisions\/57888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}