Rosenberg: Luhansk strike sparks Russian accusations and vow to retaliate

Then a caption fills the screen:"The people killed in the Starobilsk-attack" class="entity-link entity-event" data-entity-id="132953" data-entity-type="event">Starobilsk attack," it says, listing the names of the dead students and their dates of birth.Russian President Vladimir Putin called what happened a "terrorist strike." He insisted there had been "no military facilities, intelligence service facilities or related services in the vicinity.""Therefore, there is absolutely no basis for claiming that the munitions struck the building as a result of our air defence or electronic warfare systems," the Kremlin leader said.In a statement the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces said it did carry out an attack near Starobilsk on the night of 21-22 May but maintains that it struck a Russian military unit.Amid claim and counterclaim Russia on Friday had requested an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council."Under international humanitarian law, this constitutes a war crime," said Russia's UN ambassador Vasily Nebenyza. He held up photographs of the destroyed college."If we were to apply the same logic behind Russia's call for today's meeting, we would need twice-daily emergency Security Council meetings — including on the weekends — to only scratch the surface of the terror, death and destruction inflicted across Ukraine by Russia," commented the representative from Denmark.