A Russian missile attack on a train station in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk killed 50 and injured nearly 100 people trying to flee the eastern Donbas region, Ukrainian authorities said Friday, as Moscow focuses its attention on a renewed offensive there.
At least 50 people, including five children, were killed in a rocket attack on a railway station in eastern Ukraine on Friday, authorities said. Two Russian rockets struck the train station in the city of Kramatorsk in Donetsk Oblast on Friday morning, according to Ukraine's state-owned railway company, which in a statement via Facebook called the attack "a purposeful strike on the passenger infrastructure of the railway and the residents of the city of Kramatorsk." Donetsk Oblast Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said 38 of the 50 killed died at the scene while 12 died in hospitals. At least 100 were injured, according to the governor.
Earlier this week, large crowds of people were seen waiting on the platform to board trains at the Kramatorsk railway station as they fled the city in Ukraine's disputed Donbas region. Since 2014, Russia-backed separatist forces have controlled two breakaway republics of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts in the Donbas. The separatists have been fighting alongside Russian troops to seize more territory there, after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. Now, the Russian military is said to be refocusing its offensive in the Donbas as its troops withdraw from northern Ukraine.
The railway was reportedly packed with thousands desperately seeking to flee eastern Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, also warned that atrocities against civilians in Borodyanka, near Kyiv, were “significantly more dreadful” than those committed in Bucha, which appalled the world.
As Vladimir Putin’s forces completed their retreat from Kyiv and northern Ukraine, more appalling stories were emerging of the killing of civilians, the murder of 40 children, rapes, torture and using people as human shields.
On Friday morning Ukrainian state railway bosses said at least 30 people had been killed and more than 100 wounded in Russian rocket strikes on Kramatorsk train station, in the east of the country.
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