A Russian missile strike on a Ukrainian railway station has killed 22 people and injured 50.
In an address to the United Nations on Wednesday night, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian rockets struck a train station in Chaplyne, about 145 kilometres west of Donestk.Among the dead is an 11-year-old child who was killed when a rocket slammed into a house, said an official from the president's office, Kirill Timoshenko.
Rubble can be seen at the site in the Mykolaiv Regional State Administration building in Mykolaiv. The Mykolaiv Regional State Administration building was hit by a Russia missile strike on the morning of 29 March, 2022. Picture: Alex Chan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. The date also marks six months since Russia launched its brutal invasion of Ukraine which was has decimated cities and led to thousands of deaths.
“A new nation appeared in the world on 24 February at four in the morning. It was not born, but reborn," he said.
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