Russia Destroys Ukraine's Schools and Hospital

Russian airstrikes have damaged a school in the Ukrainian city of Zhytomyr, west of Kyiv, partially destroying the building, according to the mayor and multiple witnesses.

Video and photographs from the site showed smoke rising from piles of rubble and scattered lumps of concrete.
Ukraine school left in ruins by Russian airstrikes as Putin’s forces ‘destroy lives and memories’
Piles of rubble and scattered lumps of concrete left behind after building in Zhytomyr hit

Tom Batchelor
3 days ago

Ukraine: Zhytomyr school severely damaged amid Russian shelling
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Russian airstrikes have hit a school in the Ukrainian city of Zhytomyr, west of Kyiv, partially destroying the building, according to the mayor and multiple witnesses.

Video and photographs from the site showed smoke rising from piles of rubble and scattered lumps of concrete.

Serhiy Sukhomlyn, Zhytomyr’s mayor, said in a video address that the school had been hit by a “missile or a bomb” and that “half of school was ruined”.

“The information on casualties will be released later... rescue operations are underway,” he said, according to UkrInform.