A missile hit a train station where thousands of people had gathered to flee in eastern Ukraine, killing at least 50 on Friday, Ukrainian authorities said, as workers unearthed bodies from a mass grave in a town that has become the center of war crimes allegations against Russian troops.
A missile hit a train station in eastern Ukraine where thousands had gathered Friday, killing at least 52 and wounding dozens more in an attack on a crowd of mostly women and children trying to flee a new, looming Russian offensive, Ukrainian authorities said.
Zelenskyy told Ukrainians in his nightly video address Friday that efforts would be taken "to establish every minute of who did what, who gave what orders, where the missile came from, who transported it, who gave the command and how this strike was agreed to." "There are almost no words for it," European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, in Ukraine, told reporters. "The cynical behavior has almost no benchmark anymore."
He expounded on that theme in an excerpted interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" that aired Friday, citing communications intercepted by the Ukrainian security service. A senior U.S. defence official said Friday that the Pentagon believes some of the retreating units were so badly damaged they are "for all intents and purposes eradicated." The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal military assessments.
"The Ukrainian military is desperately trying to reinforce units in the area … and the railway stations in that area in Ukrainian-held territory are critical for movement of equipment and people," said Justin Bronk, a research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London.
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