Dozens feared dead as Russian shell hits Ukrainian school

A woman looks at a crater from an explosion after a Russian air strike in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine (Evgeniy Maloletka/AP)

Dozens of Ukrainians are feared dead after a Russian bomb destroyed a school sheltering about 90 people in the basement as Moscow’s invading forces kept up their barrage of cities, towns and villages in eastern and southern Ukraine.

The governor of Luhansk province, one of two areas that make up the eastern industrial heartland known as the Donbas, said the school in the village of Bilohorivka caught fire after Saturday’s bombing.