Russian soldiers wrote a frightening message of revenge on one of the dropped missiles at the Kramatorsk station. In the photo, Ukrainian troops are investigating part of the explosive dropped at the site.
At least 39 civilians were killed on Friday when a missile fell on a station in the city of Kramatorskin eastern Ukraine, an area where thousands of civilians are fleeing for fear of an imminent Russian offensive.
This attack, where 100 people were also injureds, was one of the bloodiest in the six weeks of the war and occurs during the international outrage over atrocities that are beginning to be discovered in Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski called it an act of “Infinite Evil” from Russia.
Part of the Tochka-U missile that fell at the Kramatorsk train station in Ukraine. Photo: AP
But in Moscow, the Ministry of Defense denied that he was the author of the attack and denounced a “provocation” of kyiv.
“The purpose of this attack organized by the kyiv regime against the Kramatorsk railway station was to prevent the civilian population from leaving the city to use him as a human shield“, said the Russian Defense Ministry, emphasizing that the missile was launched from the Ukrainian city of Dobropillyaabout 45 kilometers from Kramatorsk.
Ayon Oleksander Kamyshin, head of the Ukrainian railway company Ukrzaliznytsia, it’s about “a deliberate attack”.
The bodies are everywhere at the train station in Kramatorsk, the capital of the Donbas where Russia is fighting every inch. Photo: AP
Day 44 in photos: missile attacks on civilians trying to flee the war
In front of the Kramatorsk station are many burning cars and the crooked remains of the missile where you can read, in white letters and in Russian, the inscription. “for our children”.
The phrase, which sounds like revenge, is sometimes used by pro-Russian separatists to refer to their dead children in the Donbas war, which began in 2014.
The station was littered with abandoned suitcases, broken glass, debris and destruction. The inside of the station, where thousands of people have been evacuated for days, filled with bloodoften trampled and extended towards the street, due to the movement of bodies.
Burned cars and destruction, the result of a violent attack on the Kramatorsk railway station. Photo: AFP
“I’m looking for my husband, he’s here but I can’t find him,” one woman said without daring to approach the corpses of the victimslined up outside the station.
Kramatorsk is the capital of the Donbas which is still under Ukrainian control. Hours before the attack, an AFP reporter who went to the station saw hundreds of people waiting, queuing, to leave the region in the direction in other safer parts of the country.
For days, Russian forces focus their operations in eastern and southern Ukraine, in a desire to create a corridor between Crimea, occupied and merged in 2014 by Moscow, and the pro-Russian separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, in the Ukrainian Donbas.
Ukrainian soldiers and volunteers carried a corpse outside the Kramatorsk train station in eastern Ukraine. Photo: AFP
It forces thousands of civilians to do so fled west and northalthough in many cases evacuations were interrupted by bombing.
“It’s no secret, the battle for the Donbas will be decisive. What we have already experienced, all this horrible, may multiply,” said the governor of Lugansk, Sergi Gaidai.
Analysts believe Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to take control of Donbas before the military parade on May 9commemorating the end of World War II, a very important and symbolic date in Russia.
Source: Clarin