Around 4000 people were at the railway station which has been used by fleeing refugees when it was hit by Russian missiles, officials have said.
“We were driving by the station over an overpass, we could see well over a thousand people. We will hold Russia and Putin to account.” “These were precision missiles aimed at people trying to seek humanitarian shelter,” he said. Probability of its accuracy in an area like that is going to cause significant casualties,” officials said. Russia’s defence ministry has issued a denial that it attacked the station through the RIA news agency. However, Russian propaganda narratives have accused Ukraine of bombing children in separatist Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
At least 50 people, including five children, were killed after Russian forces carried out a missile strike on a railway station in Kramatorsk, ...
He said that the fighting there will be reminiscent of the destructive battles during World War II, as Moscow's offensive could involve "thousands of tanks, armored vehicles, planes, artillery." For almost eight years, the two regions have been the site of a low-intensity war between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian forces. to be targeted by the Russian military when the invasion of Ukraine was launched on February 24. He said that "people (were) crowded waiting for the trains to be evacuated to the safe territory" at the station. Russia's military and senior officials have issued blanket denials of attacks against civilians, most recently claiming -- without evidence -- that the massacre of civilians in Bucha was staged. Why this cruelty that the world has witnessed in Bucha and other cities liberated by the Ukrainian army?"
More than 30 people were killed and over 100 were wounded in a Russian rocket strike on a railway station in east Ukraine on Friday as civilians…
Ukrainian Railways later added: "According to operational data, more than 30 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded in the rocket attack on Kramatorsk railway station." More than 30 people were killed and over 100 were wounded in a Russian rocket strike on a railway station in east Ukraine on Friday as civilians tried to evacuate to safer parts of the country, the state railway company said. Kramatorsk was one of the stations still operating in Ukraine, and the governor of Donetsk said thousands of people were there at the time, trying to get on to trains out of the area.
Thousands of civilians were at the station trying to evacuate to safer areas of the country, according to the governor of the Donetsk region.
After Bucha, this is already obvious." It's much worse there," he said. He said: "The Russian state and the Russian military are the greatest threat on the planet to freedom, to human security, to the concept of human rights as such. It comes as Russian forces in the north have fully withdrawn from Ukraine as focus shifts further to the east of the country, according to British military intelligence. Thousands of civilians were at the station trying to evacuate to safer areas of the country, according to the governor of the Donetsk region. Thousands of civilians were at Kramatorsk railway station trying to evacuate to safer regions in the war-ravaged country, the governor of the Donetsk region said.
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And this is the 44th day of our reality,” he added, referring to the time that has passed since Russia launched its invasion on February 24. Another photo showed rescue services tackling what appeared to be a fire, with a pall of grey smoke rising into the air. AFP news agency said its journalists on the scene saw at least 20 bodies of people grouped and lying under plastic sheets next to the station. Bodies were later seen being loaded onto a military truck. A Ukrainian intelligence official said four children were among those killed. Oleksandr Kamyshin, head of the railway company, called it “a deliberate attack on the passenger infrastructure of the railway and the residents of Kramatorsk”.
At least 30 people, including two children, were killed after Russian forces carried out a missile strike on a railway station in Kramatorsk, ...
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said the "battle for Donbas" is already underway. For almost eight years, the two regions have been the site of a low-intensity war between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian forces. to be targeted by the Russian military when the invasion of Ukraine was launched on February 24. He said that "people (were) crowded waiting for the trains to be evacuated to the safe territory" at the station. Russia's military and senior officials have issued blanket denials of attacks against civilians, most recently claiming -- without evidence -- that the massacre of civilians in Bucha was staged. Why this cruelty that the world has witnessed in Bucha and other cities liberated by the Ukrainian army?"
State railway company says two Russian rockets struck station being used to evacuate civilians to safety.
“Russian forces hit the train station in Kramatorsk, [firing] on an ordinary train station, on ordinary people, there were no soldiers there,” he said during an address to the Finnish parliament. Kyrylenko said thousands of people had been at the station when the rockets struck. Blood was pooling on the ground and packed bags were strewn outside the building.
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"The occupiers hit the Kramatorsk railway station with a Tochka-U, where thousands of peaceful Ukrainians were waiting to be evacuated,” he added. I don't know if they were just injured or dead." This is an evil that has no limits. Lacking the strength and courage to stand up to us on the battlefield, they are cynically destroying the civilian population. Police and rescuers are already on the scene. “Russian non-humans do not abandon their methods.
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Russia has tried to recast the goal of the war as the ‘liberation’ of the Donbas after failing to make gains elsewhere. ‘This is an evil that has no limits. The Ministry of Defence and other Western governments believe Russia is in the process of patching up units withdrawn from the Kyiv region to send to the east. Ukraine’s government has encouraged people to leave after the Kremlin signalled it intends to annex the Donbas region after failing to conquer Kyiv. Regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said thousands of people were at the train station at the time of the strike. Three trains carrying evacuees were blocked in the same region of Ukraine on Thursday after an air strike on the line, officials said.