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39 Killed in Train Station Strike as Civilians Flee East Ukraine

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4.8.22
A rocket attack on a train station in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk killed dozens on Friday as civilians raced to leave the Donbas region in the crosshairs of the Russian army. Thirty-nine people were killed, including four children, Ukraine's SBU security service said, in one of the deadliest strikes of the six-week-old war. President Volodymyr Zelensky reported 300 were injured, saying the strike showed "evil with no limits." AFP journalists on the scene saw the bodies of at least 30 people grouped and lying under plastic sheets next to the station, before being loaded onto a military truck. Blood was pooling on the ground and packed bags were strewn outside the building in the immediate aftermath of the attack. The remains of a large rocket with the words "for our children" in Russian was lying just adjacent to the main building. "I'm looking for my husband. He was here. I can't reach him," a woman told AFP, sobbing and holding her phone to her ear. Suitcases, stuffed animals and bags were scattered around the station and across the platform, interspersed with human remains.

The Russian Defense Ministry said suggestions it had carried out the attack were "absolutely untrue." The bombing came as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell headed to Kyiv on Friday in a sign of solidarity with Ukraine. Russian troops appear to be aiming to create a long-sought land link between occupied Crimea and the Moscow-backed separatist statelets of Donetsk and Lugansk in Donbas. Heavy shelling has already begun to lay waste to towns in the region, and officials have begged civilians to flee, but the intensity of fighting is impeding evacuations. Officials continued to press civilians to leave where possible. "There is no secret — the battle for Donbas will be decisive. What we have already experienced, all this horror, it can multiply," warned governor of the Lugansk region, Sergiy Gaiday. "Leave! The next few days are the last chances. Buses will be waiting for you in the morning," he added.


The Kremlin would like us to believe the Ukrainians rocketed their own busy train station.

The city of Kramatorsk (150,000) is in a region of Donbas in eastern Ukraine still held by the government. Ukrainian forces had previously liberated Kramatorsk in 2014.

 
How horrific! The UN and/or NATO must respond militarily somehow or other. Putin must be stopped.
 

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The Kremlin would like us to believe the Ukrainians rocketed their own busy train station.

The city of Kramatorsk (150,000) is in a region of Donbas in eastern Ukraine still held by the government. Ukrainian forces had previously liberated Kramatorsk in 2014.

The Russians aren't even pretending anymore. After Bucha was exposed, they aren't even trying to hide their slaughter of innocents anymore.
 
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