AFP journalists saw at least 30 bodies in body bags or under tarpaulins. The sidewalks were stained with blood, abandoned suitcases, stuffed animals and food littered the platforms.
On the forecourt, the remains of a missile were still visible: it read in Russian “For our children“. A recurring expression of pro-Russian separatists in reference to their children killed since the first Donbass war, which began in 2014.
In the station, a woman, traumatized, was looking for her passport in the abandoned belongings.
“I heard like a double explosion, I rushed once morest the wall to protect myself. I then saw people bleeding into the station, bodies all over the ground, I don’t know if they were injured or dead. The soldiers rushed to tell us to evacuate the station, I left everything here“.
Arrived Friday in Ukraine for a support visit, accompanied by the head of EU diplomacy Josep Borrell, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, for her part denounced a “despicable attack“.
The two went to Boutcha, near kyiv, a city symbol of the atrocities of which Russia is accused.
Dozens of corpses wearing civilian clothes, some with their hands tied behind their backs, were discovered in this locality, 30 km from the Ukrainian capital, in early April following the departure of Russian forces.
“I am deeply convinced that Ukraine will win this war, that democracy will win this war“, Ms. von der Leyen then declared in kyiv, during a joint press conference with President Zelensky.
The Austrian Chancellor, Karl Nehammer, must also go to Boutcha on Saturday, as well as to kyiv.
