Rocket Attack On A Train Station In Kramatorsk

A rocket attack on a train station in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk killed more than 30 and injured more than 100 people trying to flee the country’s Donbas region, Ukraine’s state railway company said Friday, as Moscow focuses its attention on a renewed offensive in the region.

A rocket attack on a train station in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk killed more than 30 and injured more than 100 people trying to flee the country’s Donbas region, Ukraine’s state railway company said Friday, as Moscow focuses its attention on a renewed offensive in the region.

The station was being used by thousands of civilians trying to evacuate, authorities said.

Ukraine’s state railway company said in a statement that two Russian rockets had struck the station with “the purpose of directing the blow to the passenger infrastructure and the residents of Kramatorsk.”

Russian state media cited the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic as blaming the strike on a Ukrainian missile.

Ukrainian authorities are facing a double task of surveying the extent of damage left by Russian troops around Kyiv while assessing the growing threat of Kremlin forces in the southern and eastern parts of the country.

Fighting in Donbas escalated overnight, Ukraine’s general staff said, adding that Russian troops had launched airstrikes and artillery fire on civilian targets in Popasna, Severodonetsk and other cities near the front line between Ukrainian troops and forces made up of Russian troops and Russian-controlled separatists.