More than 30 people have been killed and over 100 wounded in a Russian rocket attack on a railway station as civilians tried to evacuate.
There were thousand of civilians at the Kramatorsk railway station in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine when the missiles struck, according to local officials.
The Governor of the Donetsk region said the station was deliberately targeted and noted that the civilians were attempting to evacuate a town that has been heavily shelled for weeks.
Olexander Kamyshin of the Ukrainian Railroads said more than 30 died and more than 100 were wounded.
“This is a deliberate strike at passenger infrastructure of the railroad and on the residents of Kramatorsk,” he wrote.
It comes as the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the death and destruction left by retreating Russian troops in the Ukrainian town of Borodyanka is ‘significantly more dreadful’ than that seen in Bucha.
Speaking after the Kramatorsk missile attack he described the Kremlin as an “evil that has no limits” and accused it of recruiting “terrorists” from around the world.
“Russia is pulling together all the people who can hold arms to continue their aggression,” he said.
“They are looking for mercenaries from all over the world. They are sending militants from all the private armies.”
The Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney said Russia had deliberately targeted women and children who were trying to flee the violence.
More horrific images, more deliberate targeting of civilians by #Russian military in #Ukraine, this time predominantly women & children trying to flee conflict areas by train!
Sanctions must be as strong as possible to stop this kind of savagery. #StandWithUkraine https://t.co/OPJay9Bfzu— Simon Coveney (@simoncoveney) April 8, 2022
He said sanctions against the Kremlin must be as strong as possible to "stop this kind of savagery".
Main image is a file photo of Kramatorsk railway station taken on March 2nd, 2022. Image: ZUMA Press Inc / Alamy Stock Photo
With reporting from IRN.
