East Ukraine preschool damaged by shelling amid Russian tensions

Ukrainian officials have accused Russia-backed rebels of shelling a village preschool.

The Ukrainian military said no injuries were caused when the building in the Luhansk region, in eastern Ukraine, was allegedly hit.

It comes as Ukrainian officials and the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) – a self-proclaimed quasi-state – have each accused each other of breaching a ceasefire agreement.

The LPR accused Ukraine of having “crudely violated the ceasefire regime” set out in the Minsk agreement – by allegedly firing mortar shells at four of their locations, an assertion Kiev has rejected.

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