52 people died due to rockets hitting the station, Ukraine and Russia accused each other

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 Russia and Ukraine have blamed each other for a missile that hit a station in eastern Ukraine, killing at least 52 people on April 8.


On the morning of April 8, a missile hit the station in Kramatorsk, Eastern Ukraine, where thousands of people were waiting for trains to evacuate due to fears of a large-scale military operation in the Donbass.


In an announcement on Telegram on the afternoon of the same day, the Governor of Donetsk Governor Pavel Kirilenko published an update on the number of people injured and killed in the incident.


"At least 50 people died, including five children. Such a large number of victims due to the Tochka U missile attack by Russian forces on the Kramatorsk station. At that moment, 98 people were taken to the hospital. . We anticipate other victims will continue to receive medical assistance within 1-2 days, so the number of victims will keep changing," said Kirilenko, who initially assumed the attack was carried out. with the Iskander rocket, said.


According to Kirilenko, of the 98 people hospitalized, there are 16 children, 46 women and 36 men. "12 of them died at the hospital. 38 people died at the station," confirmed Mr. Kirilenko.


Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called it a targeted attack on civilians. Zelensky also confirmed that no Ukrainian soldiers were present at the station at the time of the attack.


Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed that the attack on the Kramatorsk station was carried out by "a missile battalion of the Ukrainian armed forces from the Dobropolye city area".


The Russian Defense Ministry believes that the attack was carried out "to interrupt the mass evacuation of residents from the city" and to allow the Ukrainian armed forces to use civilians as human shields.


Russia announced that its military forces had no operations in Kramatorsk today. Moscow called Kiev's accusations "provocative and completely unrelated to the actual situation".


Eduard Basurin, a spokesman for the armed forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) - a breakaway territory in Eastern Ukraine, earlier confirmed that the explosion at the station was caused by a Tochka U missile. said that neither the DPR, the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) nor Russia used this type of missile.


Western countries were quick to blame Russia for the attack, but did not present any evidence. The EU's top diplomat Josep Borrell condemned the incident on Twitter, accusing it of a Russian attack on a train station in Kramatorsk.


In March, Russia announced that its forces had completed the objectives of the first phase of the military operation in Ukraine. Russia announced the withdrawal of forces from the capital Kiev and Northern Ukraine to focus on the goal of "complete liberation of Donbass".


Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba warned on April 7 that the "battle of Donbass" could take place on a large scale. The West believes that Russia is concentrating its forces in Eastern Ukraine to prepare for a major landmark battle.

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