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Dozens feared dead after Ukraine school bombing; Biden meets G7 leaders

Putin says 'victory will be ours, as in 1945'; US sanctions Russian TV stations

Jill Biden with Olena Zelenska
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US first lady Jill Biden with Olena Zelenska, wife of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiyy, outside a public school in Uzhhorod, in Ukraine. Photo: Reuters

Reuters Zaporizhzhia
As many as 60 people were feared to have been killed in the Russian bombing of a village school in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, the regional governor said on Sunday.

Governor Serhiy Gaidai said Russian forces dropped a bomb on Saturday afternoon on the school in Bilohorivka where about 90 people were sheltering, causing a fire that engulfed the building.

“The fire was extinguished after nearly four hours, then the rubble was cleared, and, unfortunately, the bodies of two people were found,” Gaidai wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

“Thirty people were evacuated from the rubble, seven of

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