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Stanytsia Luhanska Kindergarten Bombing
The Stanytsia Luhanska kindergarten bombing was an event directly preceding the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine. It was shelling of a kindergarten in Stanytsia Luhanska on 17 February 2022 which injured three people, and left half the town without electricity. It was performed by separatists shortly before the invasion. Overview On 17 February 2022, a mortar shell landed in a kindergarten in Stanytsia Luhanska, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. The Luhansk People's Republic (Sergey Kozlov (politician), Sergey Kozlov) accused Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ukraine of using mortars, grenade launchers, rocketeers or/and a machine gun along its contact line, possibly near Stanytsia Luhanska. Ukrainian sources claimed LPR People's Militia, LPR and Russian Armed Forces, Russian positions fired from somewhere near Mykolaivka, Luhansk Oblast, Mykolaivka or Luhansk towards Stanytsia Luhanska. This was during the Prelude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, prelude before the Russian invasion of Ukrain ...
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Stanytsia Luhanska
Stanytsia Luhanska (; ) is a Populated places in Ukraine#Rural settlements, rural settlement on the banks of the Donets, Siverskyi Donets River in the Shchastia Raion of Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine. Residence of Stanytsia Luhanska settlement hromada. Population: . It is situated 20 km northeast of Luhansk. Prior to 2020, it was the administrative centre of the former Stanytsia-Luhanska Raion. History Stanytsia Luhanska is one of two local foundations of the Don Cossacks in today's Ukraine. During World War II, in 1942–1943, the German occupiers operated a Nazi prison in the settlement. Russo-Ukrainian war Starting Mid-April 2014 2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine, pro-Russian separatists 2014 insurgency in Donbass, captured several towns in the Donbass region, including Stanytsia Luhanska. On 2 July 2014 unspecified planes attacked the village and the village of Kondrashovka. The Ukrainian army denied the airstrike and blamed the damage on faulty shelling by ...
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