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 Ukraine says Russian strike on train station kills dozens trying to flee
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Ukraine says Russian strike on train station kills dozens trying to flee

by Adam Said April 8, 2022

About 30 people were killed and more than 100 injured Friday in a Russian rocket attack on the Kramatorsk train station, one of the easternmost stations still operating in Ukraine, the country’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a statement. The station was being used to evacuate civilians from eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region.

NOTE: This article contains disturbing images of victims killed and injured in Kramatorsk.

“Lacking the strength and courage to stand up to us on the battlefield, [the Russians] are cynically destroying the civilian population,” Zelenskyy said. “This is an evil that has no limits. And if it is not punished, it will never stop.”

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Ukrainian servicemen carry a victim to be placed next to other casualties after a bombing of the railway station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk, in the Donbas region, April 8, 2022. HERVE BAR/AFP/Getty

Around 4,000 people, mostly women and children, were at the train station at the time of the attack, the mayor of Kramatorsk said. Graphic images shared on social media appeared to show a number of casualties in civilian clothing.

“This is a deliberate strike on the passenger infrastructure of the railway and the residents of Kramatorsk,” the head of the country’s national railway, Alexander Kamyshin, wrote on social media.

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Ukrainian police inspect the remains of a large rocket with the words “for children” in Russian next to the main building of a train station in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, that was being used for civilian evacuations, that was hit by a rocket attack killing at least 35 people, on April 8, 2022. FADEL SENNA/AFP/Getty

Ukrainian security forces were seen inspecting the remains of a missile across from the train station after the attack. The missile carcass had the words “for children” written in Russian on its side.

Russia denied it had carried out the attack, blaming it on Ukraine’s own forces.

“All statements by representatives of the Kyiv nationalist regime about the ‘rocket attack’ allegedly carried out by Russia on April 8 at the railway station in the city of Kramatorsk are a provocation and are absolutely untrue,” the Russian defense ministry said.

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Ukrainian service men check for signs of life among casualties lying on the platform in the aftermath of a rocket attack on the railway station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk, in the Donbass region on April 8, 2022. ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images

Officials have been warning that Russia would intensify its attacks on the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine, and civilians have been rushing to evacuate the area.

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Haley Ott

Haley Ott is a digital reporter/producer for CBS News based in London.

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