Over 30 killed, 100 wounded in Russian rocket strike on Ukrainian station
At least 52 people were killed, including five children, Friday in a Russian rocket attack on a railroad station in eastern Ukraine — where civilians were trying to evacuate to safer parts of the country amid the brutal invasion, officials said.
Ukraine’s prosecutor-general said about 4,000 civilians were in and around the station at the time of the attack — many of them women and children heeding calls to leave the region amid warnings of Russia launching a full-scale offensive in the country’s east. “The ‘Rashists’ knew very well where they were aiming and what they wanted: they wanted to sow panic and fear, they wanted to take as many civilians as possible,” he said.
Kyrylenko said that 50 people were killed, including five children, and that the ballistic missile contained cluster munitions — a brutal weapon“They wanted to take as many civilians as possible,” he said.
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