{"id":6180,"date":"2026-05-26T02:57:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T02:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=6180"},"modified":"2026-05-29T13:48:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:48:43","slug":"sanchez-fear-and-anger-after-deadly-ukrainian-strike-on-college-dorm-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/sanchez-fear-and-anger-after-deadly-ukrainian-strike-on-college-dorm-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanchez: \u2018Fear and anger\u2019 after deadly Ukrainian strike on college dorm (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The town of Starobelsk is filled with \u201cfear and anger\u201d after drone attacks killed 21 students and injured more than 40, the journalist said<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Ukraine\u2019s justification for its deadly strike on a college dormitory in Starobelsk, Russia is not backed by evidence, RT\u2019s Rick Sanchez said while reporting from the scene.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian drones attacked a small, regional campus of Lugansk State Pedagogical University in the early hours of Friday while students were asleep in their beds. A total of 21 people\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>18 women and three men\u00a0\u2013 were killed, and more than 40 others were injured.<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian General Staff claimed that its forces had targeted one of the command posts of an elite Russian Rubicon drone unit. However, there were no signs of any military presence in or around the dormitory, Sanchez said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere wasn\u2019t even a hint of military personnel here. It was a targeted attack on children,\u201d<\/em> said Roman Antonov, commander of a firefighting squad. Antonov said dozens of people were trapped under the rubble, but his team could not immediately reach them because the initial attack was followed by a second strike.<\/p>\n

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Rescuers continue to clear the rubble, while\u00a0residents have been bringing flowers to makeshift memorials. Teachers held a memorial event outside the destroyed building, holding photographs of the victims.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were no military personnel\u201d<\/em> in the dormitory, university president Zhanna Marfina told Sanchez. She dismissed Ukraine\u2019s account of the strike as a \u201cpure lie.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Lugansk People\u2019s Republic, a largely Russian-speaking region, voted to secede from Ukraine shortly after the Western-backed coup in Kiev in 2014. It later voted to join Russia in September 2022.<\/p>\n

Kiev has refused to recognize the referendums and continues to consider the territory, including Starobelsk, to be occupied Ukrainian land.<\/p>\n

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Last week\u2019s strikes left \u201can unnerving sense of fear and anger\u201d<\/em> in the town, Sanchez said. People he spoke to at the memorial said they did not want Kiev\u2019s rule to return, rejecting what they described as the \u201cimposition\u201d<\/em> of the Ukrainian language.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve spoken Russian our whole lives,\u201d<\/em> one woman said, adding that the dormitory strike had left her \u201cspeechless.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThey were deliberately targeting (the campus). It couldn\u2019t have been a mistake,\u201d<\/em> another woman told Sanchez. \u201cThis is our Donbass. This is Russian land,\u201d<\/em> she added.<\/p>\n

The Russian Foreign Ministry denounced the attack as a war crime and accused NATO members of helping Ukraine select targets for strikes.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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