Thread by @kromark

What is really weird about this strike is the absence of any traces of dormitories in the destroyed buildings, while there are hundreds of photos of students in classrooms. There are two dorms nearby, and I assume they may have been damaged, but they were not shown in any videos.

Here's some photos from this dorm:

Here's what it actually looks like. Did I miss any footage of this building being destroyed/damaged too? (honest question!)

Here's what the 2nd dormitory looks like from outside. It's quite close to the destroyed /damaged buildings shown in the videos and photos, but I haven't seen a single photos or video of it being damaged too.

Not trying to justify any strike on civilians (especially children), just trying to understand what is happening here. Is Russian propaganda just trying to inflate the incident by falsely claiming that dormitories were destroyed?

So, the initial claim about dozens of students killed or buried under the rubble of a dorm is now being quickly downplayed by local 'LPR' authorities. t.me/astrapress/113… x.com/kromark/status…

Also, these buildings were hit, but these are not any of those dorms.

(To make it clear, it is still a stone-cold truth that the college, 2 buildings of it, were targeted and destroyed. There is zero evidence that they hosted any military personnel, and there's not yet any reasonable justification for the strike)

Now there’s a poor-quality, low-resolution @planet satellite image in which at least some damage can be seen on one of the dormitories in Starobil's'k (a roof/attic?). Still, it’s strange that no footage featuring this building has been published.

@planet Finally, a post-strike image showing damage to the dorm. Yeah, it doesn’t look good at all (in all senses of 'looking good,' including the fact of the strike itself).

@planet My conclusion regarding the Starobilsk story is that the confusion was caused by the media trying to present more 'picturesque' collapsed college buildings as images of a dormitory for propaganda purposes, while the dorm itself was also badly damaged. t.me/glava_lnr_info…

As new photos emerge, it becomes clear that one of the floors of the 'main' college building was also used as a dormitory: mattresses and bunk beds can be seen in the rubble, and victims say they lived on the 5th floor, while there are only four floors in the 'dorm building'.

I’d take this evidence of Russian military sharing the dorm(s) with teens – posted by a Ukrainian TG channel – with a grain of salt, but I’m including it in my thread for a better overall picture of today’s strike on Starobilsk.
t.me/Trikutnik_UA/1…
x.com/i/status/20578…

The latest death toll from the Ukrainian strike on a college and dormitories in occupied Starobilsk is 10 dead and 38 injured. svoboda.org/a/hronika-voin…