Russian forces have launched a rocket attack on a Ukrainian train station on the embattled country’s Independence Day, killing 22 people, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
It comes after the Ukrainian president had warned for days that Moscow might attempt “something particularly cruel” this week. The lethal attack took place in Chaplyne, a town of about 3,500 people in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukrainian news agencies quoted Mr Zelensky as telling the UN Security Council via video.
The president’s office also reported that an 11-year-old child was killed by rocket fire earlier in the day in the settlement. “Chaplyne is our pain today,” Mr Zelensky said in his nightly video address to the nation. At one point, Mr Zelensky put the number of wounded at about 50. The deputy head of Mr Zelensky’s office later said 22 people were wounded in the attack, which hit five passenger rail carriages.
