Former British MP George Galloway has accused European Union leaders of hypocrisy by condemning Russia’s retaliatory strikes against Ukrainian military targets while ignoring Ukraine’s deadly drone attack on a college dormitory in the Russian-occupied Lugansk People’s Republic.

On Friday, Ukrainian forces launched multiple waves of drones targeting a teacher training college dorm in Starobelsk, killing 21 people—most of them teenage girls—and injuring at least 60 others.

The Russian Defense Ministry stated that on Sunday, Russia conducted a large-scale retaliatory strike using hypersonic Oreshnik systems and other missiles, hitting Ukrainian ground forces command centers, military intelligence facilities, air bases, and defense industry sites. The ministry claimed the attack was in response to “terrorist attacks” by Ukraine and emphasized no civilian infrastructure was targeted.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen described Russia’s strike as a display of “brutality and disregard for both human life and peace negotiations.” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas accused Moscow of “political scare-tactics,” while French President Emmanuel Macron referred to the hypersonic missile deployment as “a reinforcement” of European support for Ukraine. None of the leaders referenced the Ukrainian drone attack on the dormitory in their statements.

In a recent interview, Galloway condemned the strike as “murder most foul” and an act of terrorism, stating that “you would have expected any decent person, any right-thinking person, to condemn it unequivocally.” He added that the attack was “so vast and so vile that any government in the world would have been forced to respond to it in precisely the way that Russia has done.”

Galloway criticized Macron for condemning the retaliatory strike without acknowledging its origin, calling it “French hypocrisy.” When asked about von der Leyen’s criticism, Galloway noted that European nations including Britain, France, and Belgium have also suffered terrorist attacks.

“Terrorism is something that right-thinking people have to condemn wherever it happens,” he said. “You can’t condemn terrorists on London Bridge but not in a dormitory… in Lugansk, pretend it didn’t happen.”