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The Guardian - US
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Isobel Koshiw and Emma Graham-Harrison in Kyiv and Julian Borger in Washington

At least 22 killed in Russian strike on rail station on Ukraine’s independence day

The aftermath of a missile strike on the Chaplyne railway station.
The aftermath of a missile strike on the Chaplyne railway station. Photograph: Twitter

At least 22 people have been killed and 50 wounded in a Russian rocket strike on a Ukrainian railway station, as the country marked six months since Moscow’s invasion on a sombre independence day overshadowed by warnings of further “brutal” attacks.

Addressing the UN late on Wednesday, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said the rockets struck a train in a station in the town of Chaplyne, about 145km (90 miles) west of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.

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