India, June 2 -- The youngest among the dead were 18. The oldest, 22. When Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova read out the numbers at a government meeting Sunday, she framed them not as statistics but as a generation interrupted. Twenty-one people killed. Seventy injured in total. Seven still in hospital. Five already discharged.

"Of the number of victims we've recorded to date, 70 people, 21 of whom, unfortunately, have died. These were young people between the ages of 18 and 22," Golikova said at the meeting, which Russian officials described as focused on support measures for victims and the investigation into what Moscow has called a terrorist attack in the Luhansk People's Republic city of Starobelsk.

The meeting on Ju...