[2] Starting Mid-April 2014 pro-Russian separatists captured several towns in the Donbass region,[3][4] including Stanytsia Luhanska.

[6] The Ukrainian army denied the airstrike and blamed the damage on faulty shelling by the separatists.

[7] There is also a version that the air strike was caused by a Russian aircraft in order to discredit the Ukrainian army by accusing it of bombing residential areas.

[8] On 21 August 2014, Ukrainian forces reportedly were clearing Stanytsia Luhanska from the pro-Russian separatists.

[9] It became situated on the frontline with forces representing the Luhansk People's Republic and became regularly the victim of shelling.