At least two dead and 60 missing after the Russian attack on a school in Lugansk

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A Russian shelling of a school in

the eastern

has killed two people and left 60 dead in the rubble, the governor of the

region has said .

Governor

said Russian forces dropped a bomb on Saturday afternoon at the school where

, sparking a fire that engulfed the building.

"The fire was extinguished after almost four hours, then the rubble was removed and unfortunately the bodies of two people were found," Gaidai wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

"

, seven of whom were injured. Sixty people are likely to have died under the rubble of the buildings."

Ukraine

and the West have accused Russian forces of targeting civilians and

, charges

denies.

Russia

's

10-week

against

has killed thousands, destroyed cities and driven 5 million Ukrainians to flee abroad.

The besieged port city of

, a strategic target for Russian forces, has been all but destroyed, and the last

were evacuated on Saturday.

Evacuation efforts will now focus on getting the wounded and medics out of the steelworks.

Ukrainian fighters at the plant

and Russian forces are seeking to declare victory in the protracted battle for the vast plant in time for

Monday

, marking the Soviet Union's triumph over Russia.

Nazi Germany in World War II.

The Soviet-era

, the last holdout of Ukrainian forces in the key port city, has become a symbol of resistance to the Russian effort to capture swaths of eastern and southern Ukraine.

US President

and other G7 leaders will hold a video call with

President

on Sunday in a show of unity ahead of

, when President

typically inspects a massive military parade in Moscow.

's brutal attack

is not only causing untold devastation in

, it is also threatening peace and security across Europe," British Prime Minister

said in a statement Saturday, promising more aid. military.

Britain has pledged to provide another

($1.6 billion), double its previous spending commitments and what it said was the country's highest rate of spending on a conflict since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. .

Putin's speech

's Victory Day speech

could offer clues to the future of the war he launched on February 24 with a failed attack on the capital

.

's efforts

have been plagued by logistical and equipment problems and heavy casualties in the face of fierce resistance.

US Central Intelligence Agency Director

said

was convinced "doubling down" on the conflict would improve the outcome for

.

"He's in a frame of mind where he doesn't think he can afford to lose," Burns told a

event .

Other observers suggest that Putin may declare mission accomplished.

's defense intelligence agency

cited reports that the Kremlin was in

parade

in the devastated city.

The

did not respond to requests for comment on what

might say in the speech, which will be delivered from the Red Square rostrum in front of Vladimir Lenin's mausoleum.

Moscow calls the war a "special military operation" to disarm

and rid it of anti-Russian nationalism fostered by the West.

Ukraine and the West say Russia launched an unprovoked war.

bombing, tanks

Mariupol

, which sits between the Crimean peninsula seized by

in 2014 and parts of eastern Ukraine seized by

- controlled territories

and blocking Ukrainian exports.

Ukraine's general staff said on Sunday that Ukrainian units near the

plant remained blockaded and that

was continuing its artillery and tank attack on Mariupol.

's offensive

in eastern

is aimed at establishing full control over the

regions , where pro-Russian separatists have declared breakaway republics, and maintaining the land corridor between these territories and Crimea.

forces

in the two regions repulsed nine enemy attacks, destroying 19 tanks, 20 combat vehicles and one unit of enemy special engineering equipment, the general staff said on Sunday.

Reuters could not immediately verify the reports.

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