The President of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, confirms the bombing of the railway station in the city of Kramatorsk by Ukrainian forces.
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President of the Donetsk People’s Republic Denis Pushilin
The President of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, announced that five children were killed as a result of the Kyiv forces’ bombing of the train station in the city of Kramatorsk in the republic.
In a press interview, Pushilin said today, Friday, that “the outcome of the strike amounted to 50 dead, 87 wounded, and among the dead were 5 children.”
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the Ukrainian forces bombed the train station in the city of Kramatorsk, which is controlled by the Ukrainian authorities in the Donetsk Republic, with a tactical missile “Tochka or”.
Thousands of civilians gathered at the Kramatorsk station, waiting to be evacuated from the area, at the moment the missile fell this morning.
Russia denies launching a missile attack on the Kramatorsk railway station
ونفت Russian Ministry of DefenseToday, Friday, Kyiv made statements regarding the missile attack on the Kramatorsk train station.
“All statements made by representatives of the regime in Kyiv regarding the missile attack, allegedly carried out by Russia on April 8, at a train station in the city of Kramatorsk, are provocations and are completely untrue,” the statement said.
“On April 8, the Russian armed forces did not have any fire missions in the city of Kramatorsk, and they were not planned,” the statement continued.
The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed that the “Tochka” tactical missiles, “fragments of which were found near the train station and published by eyewitnesses, are used only by the Ukrainian armed forces.”
Moscow: Kyiv will not escape responsibility for the attack
Simultaneously, the Russian Foreign Ministry called, following Ukrainian forces struck the railway station in Kramatorsk, for the world to stop supplying weapons to Kyiv.
“We call on the international community to conduct an objective assessment of the crimes committed by the Ukrainian formations, stop supplying them with weapons, and encourage Kyiv to abandon unacceptable methods of war,” she said in a statement, adding, “We are sure that the Kyiv authorities will not be able to evade responsibility.”