At least 30 people, including two children, were killed after Russian forces carried out a missile strike on a railway station in eastern Ukraine, a regional official said Friday.
Tetiana Ihnatchenko, a spokeswoman for the region of Donetsk where the attack took place, said that first responders had confirmed the initial casualty figures and warned the numbers were likely to rise. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said later that nearly 300 people have been wounded in the strike and that around 30 people have died.
The eastern city of Kramatorsk was one of the first places to be targeted by the Russian military when the invasion of Ukraine was launched on February 24. Ihnatchenko said Ukrainians had been using the train station since late February to evacuate the region. "The Russians knew that thousands of people are there every day," she said. Two missiles struck the station, according to the head of Ukraine's national rail system, Oleksandr Kamyshin.
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