The death toll from a drone strike on a student dorm in the Russian-controlled Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine has risen to 16, with most of the victims young women, Russian officials said on Saturday, after a heated ⁠U.N. debate on the incident. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his military to prepare options for retaliation against Ukraine on Friday after Moscow accused Kyiv of what it described as a deliberate drone strike on a college in the town of Starobilsk. Ukraine’s military denied responsibility for the attack, saying it had struck an elite drone command unit in the area and that its ⁠forces complied with international humanitarian law. Putin said there were ​no ⁠military facilities in the area. Reuters was not able to independently verify what happened. At the scene on Saturday, a crane was working to remove rubble from a yawning gap in the ⁠building. Inside one shattered classroom, bricks and dust covered rows of student desks with “I …