Russia said on Thursday that “more than 200 Ukrainian soldiers” were killed in a bomb attack on a train station in central Ukraine yesterday.
The Kyiv government, on the other hand, announced the death of 25 people, including 2 children, and did not specify the number of soldiers affected.
The Ukrainian government also said that a residential area was hit. There is no word yet on the number of victims claimed by the Russians.
The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement that an Iskander missile “hit a military train directly at the Chaplyne station in the Dnipropetrovsk region, wiping out more than 200 reserve soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces”.
According to the ministry, the train “set out to fight regions” in eastern Ukraine, where Ukrainian troops were confronted by Moscow forces.
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The European Union condemned the attack. The bloc’s head of diplomacy, Josep Borrell, condemned the bombing on Thursday and said “those responsible will be held to account”. He used figures provided by Ukraine for the number of victims.
The EU strongly condemns another heinous attack by Russia against civilians.
Borrell did not specify how Brussels intends to hold Moscow accountable, but will chair meetings of EU foreign and defense ministers next week to address the crisis in Prague.
After Russia invaded Ukraine in February, EU countries imposed various economic sanctions on Moscow and many EU countries supplied weapons to Ukraine.
But Borrell recently acknowledged that it will be difficult to continue to unanimously support the former Soviet republic in the context of rising energy prices affecting European businesses and consumers and threatening to trigger a recession.
Bombing on Independence Day. The bombing took place on the date Ukraine celebrates Independence Day, marking its separation from the Soviet Union in 1991.
The date also coincided with the day when Russia’s invasion of the country, which began on February 24, completed six months.
*with information from AFP
source: Noticias
