Ukraine school bombing just the latest alleged atrocity as Russia pummels towns and cities across eastern Donbas region
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Kramatorsk, Ukraine — While Russian President Vladimir Putin defended his war in Ukraine on Monday, lauding his forces during a parade in Moscow to commemorate his country's role in the defeat of the Nazis during World War II, rescuers were still digging through the rubble of a school building that Ukrainian officials say was flattened by a Russian bomb over the weekend. Russian forces are accused of striking the school — where dozens of civilians were sheltering — in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, which is bearing the brunt of Putin's war.
The regional governor of Ukraine's Luhansk province said the school in the village of Bilohorivka was set alight by Saturday's bombing. He said rescue crews managed to save about 30 people, but dozens more were feared dead amid the debris as there were believed to be about 90 civilians taking shelter there when the building was hit.
As CBS News senior foreign correspondent Charlie D'Agata reports, Russian forces continue to pummel front-line cities and towns across the two regions of the Donbas, Luhansk and Donetsk. As the bombs continue to fall, many are already calling the attack on the school in Bilohorivka yet another war crime by Russian troops.
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