Missile hit Ukraine train station, 39 people died

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 Ukraine accused a Russian missile of hitting a train station in the city of Kramatorsk, killing at least 39 people. Moscow, however, denies this allegation.


On April 8, Ukrainian authorities announced that two rockets hit a train station in the city of Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, killing at least 39 people and injuring 87.


The incident happened when the station was crowded with women, children and elderly people. They are waiting to be evacuated from the fighting in the city.


The head of Ukraine's railways agency said at least two children were among the dead. Kramatorsk Mayor Oleksander Honcharenko said about 4,000 people were at the station at the time of the attack.


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.


Photos from the scene of the incident showed emergency services dealing with a fire near the station in the city center, while the bodies of victims were scattered around.


An image of what is believed to be part of a rocket lying on the ground has gone viral on social media.


The head of the Donetsk region's government, Pavel Kirilenko, accused the victims of being killed by a Russian Iskander missile. He said the missile has a cluster warhead.


Ukrainian presidential adviser Alexey Arestovich also suggested that the weapon responsible for the attack was an Iskander missile. Meanwhile, President Zelensky described the weapon as a Tochka U missile and accused Russian forces of being involved in the incident.


The Russian Defense Ministry has denied Kiev's accusations that one of Moscow's missiles targeted a station in eastern Ukraine.


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".


A spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that the images shared by witnesses showed fragments of the Tochka U missile, a weapon system "used only by Ukrainian forces". The spokesman also pointed out that a missile of the same type hit the city in Eastern Ukraine on March 14.


From the very beginning of the operation in Ukraine, Russia stated that its forces only attacked military targets, not civilians or civilian facilities.

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