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An attack on the train station in the city of Kramatorskin the Donbas controlled by the Ukrainian Army and in which there were almost 4,000 civilians who wanted to flee the region, has killed at least 50 people and injured 87, a massacre that kyiv attributes to Russian forces and that Russia denies.
The head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, noted that among the deceased there are five children.
Until now 98 people have been transferred to hospitals, of which 16 were children, 46 women and 36 men. Twelve of these citizens died in the hospital and 38 at the station, he said. According to the Office of the General Prosecutor of Ukraine, at the time of the impact of the missiles “the population was being evacuated and there were almost 4,000 civilians at the station, most of them women and children.”
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According to the photographs and videos published by the local authorities, lifeless bodies can be seen in front of the station and near the platform among blood stains, suitcases, backpacks, stuffed animals and shopping carts.
“The inhuman Russians do not abandon their methods. Not having the strength and courage to confront us on the battlefield, they cynically exterminate the civilian population,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. “This is the way Russia came to protect Donbas, its way of understanding the protection of the Russian-speaking population”he added.
The attack came just as the local authorities urged the inhabitants of the region to leave the east of the country as soon as possible, before the imminent final Russian offensive that will take place in a matter of days throughout Donbas.
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Pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk informed the Ukrainian authorities of the attack, but accused the “Ukrainian Army of having attacked Kramatorsk with missiles”.
The Russian Ministry of Defense denied any responsibility by stating that this Friday “the Armed Forces had no fire missions in the city of Kramatorsk.” “We emphasize that Tochka-U tactical missiles, fragments of which were found near the Kramatorsk station and published by eyewitnesses, are used only by the Ukrainian armed forces”.
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