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In the rocket attack on a residential area and train station in a small town in eastern Ukraine, killing regarding 20 people, including a teenage boy, Russia claimed it was an attack on a military train.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said the Iskander missile hit a military train at the Chapline railway station, killing more than 200 Ukrainian reservists heading to the Donbas front and destroying 10 military equipment.
Russia has never acknowledged responsibility for civilian sacrifices since it invaded Ukraine, and this time it claimed that they only hit Ukrainian-related targets with precision and tried to minimize civilian casualties.
Chapline, a small town in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine, was hit by two rockets from Russia on the 24th, Ukraine’s independence day.
The first rocket attack killed an 11-year-old boy when a house was destroyed, and a second rocket flew into a train station and hit a stationary train, killing 22 people and injuring more than 50, the Ukrainian side said the number of victims has risen to 25. .
