According to the Ukrainian state railway company, two Russian missiles hit the railway station in the city of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region. “This is a deliberate strike on the railway infrastructure and the residents of the city of Kramatorsk,” the Ukrainian Railways said in a Facebook post. The governor of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kirilenko, said the station was full of civilians fleeing the Russian invasion. Kirilenko accused the Russian forces of wanting to “get as many peaceful people as possible”. “Thousands of people were at the station during the rocket attack as residents of the Donetsk region were being evacuated to safer areas of Ukraine,” Kirilenko told the Telegram. Charred vehicles appear after a rocket attack on a train station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, on April 8, 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that the missiles were targeting an area at the station where “thousands of peaceful Ukrainians were waiting for the evacuation.” “Not having the strength and courage to face us on the battlefield, they are cynically destroying the civilian population,” Zelensky said in a Facebook post. “This is an evil that has no limits. And if it is not punished, it will never stop.” Graphic images provided by Ukrainian officials showed the aftermath of the attack – corpses lying on the ground next to scattered luggage and debris, with charred vehicles parked nearby.
