The strike on occupied Starobilsk during the night of May 22 was reported by occupation media, all occupation “LNR administrations”, and OstroV’s sources.
The strike hit, among other locations, the buildings of the former Pedagogical Institute (as of 2022 — Taras Shevchenko Luhansk National University). According to the occupiers’ version, including that of the so-called “LNR” leader Leonid Pasechnik, 86 students were living there, 35 of whom sustained various injuries, and some allegedly died. Occupation public channels are filled with speculative headlines.
There has been no comment from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine so far; only information about strikes on enemy targets has been reported.
According to OstroV, russian occupiers had been “mixing” their personnel with local students in the buildings in question.
It should be recalled that on April 6, 2026, a strike hit the building in Starobilsk that had housed the district administration and district council before 2022, and where the occupiers later placed their “administration of the Starobilsk municipal district”.