More than 30 people have been killed and over 100 wounded in a Russian rocket strike on a railway station in Eastern Ukraine as civilians tried to evacuate to safer parts of the country.
Posted: Apr 08, 2022 5:44 AM ET | Last Updated: 1 hour agoDurationAttention is turning to Eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, where there’s anxiety a looming Russian assault could rival battles of the Second World War. To prepare, Ukrainian officials are making an urgent appeal to NATO allies for more heavy tanks.It said two rockets had struck a station in the city of Kramatorsk, which was being used for the evacuation of civilians from areas under bombardment by Russian forces.
Pavlo Kyrylenko, the governor of the Donetsk region, said thousands of people had been at the station at the time the rockets struck. Kyrylenko published a photograph online showing several bodies on the ground beside piles of suitcases and other luggage. Armed police wearing flak jackets stood beside them.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said no Ukrainian troops were at a railway station at the time of the strike.
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