On Friday, Ukraine announced that a Russian missile attack on a train station in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, killed 50 people and injured nearly 100 as civilians tried to flee the region.
“Around 4,000 people from across eastern Ukraine had gathered at the train station, a railroad hub for the region, waiting for evacuation days after Ukrainian officials told residents to leave ahead of a renewed Russian offensive in Donbas,” The Wall Street Journal reported. “Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said a ballistic Tochka-U missile had struck the station. Photographs posted on social media by Mr. Zelensky showed bodies strewn on the ground and dozens of suitcases, strollers and bags left behind.”
Five children were among the dead and another 16 children were wounded, according to said Pavlo Kyrylenko, the head of the administration in the eastern region of Donetsk.
“They are cynically destroying the civilian population,” Zelensky wrote in a post on Instagram. “This is an evil that has no limits.”
Zelensky also posted a video of a missile fragment that had the words “for the children” painted on it. The missile was allegedly the one used in the attack.
“Russians knew that the train station in Kramatorsk was full of civilians waiting to be evacuated. Yet they stroke it with a ballistic missile, killing at least 30 and injuring at least a hundred people. This was a deliberate slaughter. We will bring each war criminal to justice,” Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, wrote on Twitter.
Russians knew that the train station in Kramatorsk was full of civilians waiting to be evacuated. Yet they stroke it with a ballistic missile, killing at least 30 and injuring at least a hundred people. This was a deliberate slaughter. We will bring each war criminal to justice. pic.twitter.com/cq0CX9wovV
— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) April 8, 2022
