The fighting was right in the city center. Our school changed hands: some forces came in, then left and were replaced by others. The fighters were inside the school firing out of the windows. The missing piece of the wall on the third floor happened when a … [rebel] tank fired at the school and hit the Ukrainian sniper who was positioned near that window.
Human Rights Watch: Attacks on, military use of schools in eastern Ukraine unacceptable
A director of the boarding school in the city of Svatove, in Lugansk region, walks through the destroyed school, on Oct. 30, 2015, after an explosion occurred in a military depot.
