About 22 persons were feared killed when a Russian missile hit a train station in Eastern Ukraine, in an attack that brought home the harsh reality of the six-month-old war.
Zelensky said in an evening video address that “five of the dead were recovered from a car on the railway track, and search and rescue operations are ongoing.”
“Charlene is our pain today,” he added.
Over 50 people were injured in the shelling, according to earlier information. It’s not possible to independently verify the details.
“Rescuers are working,” President Zelensky said during a remote address to the U.N. Security Council via video. “But, unfortunately, the number of dead may still increase.”
“There is no such war crime that the Russian occupiers have not yet committed on the territory of Ukraine,” he said.
Ukrainian officials said that by Thursday morning about 25 had died while 31 persons are still injured.
meanwhile, hours before the strike, a rocket slammed into a house in the same area, killing an 11-year-old child, according to the official in the president’s office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko. Two children narrowly escaped with their lives, officials said. They had been buried under the rubble but were rescued by emergency crews.
The hostility between Russia and Ukraine started on the 24th of February after Russia claimed Ukraine had perfected plans to join NATO a body considered anti-Russia.