At least 50 people, including five children, have been killed after a Russian missile hit a Ukrainian railway station which was packed with civilians trying to flee the fighting, Ukrainian officials said on Friday.
Russian forces targeted the station in the city of Kramatorsk - in eastern Ukraine - that was an evacuation point for families trying to get away from the fighting. President Volodymyr Zelensky said thousands of people were at the station at the time of the strike and the regional director of Donetsk, Pavlo Kyrylenko, later said 39 people had been killed and 87 wounded.
The office of Ukraine’s prosecutor-general said about 4,000 civilians were in and around the station, most of them women and children heeding calls to leave the area before Russian forces arrived. The strike came after Ukrainian leaders predicted more gruesome discoveries would be made in reclaimed cities and towns as Russian soldiers retreat to focus on eastern Ukraine. You can read more on the invasion of Ukraine here.
