Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Handout via Reuters
- Two Russian rockets hit a train station in eastern Ukraine Friday morning, Ukraine's state-run rail company said.
- The strike on Kramatorsk killed at least 30 people and injured more than 100 others, the company said.
- The victims were fleeing their homes, though their final destinations were not known.
At least 30 people were killed after two Russian rockets hit a train station in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, that was packed with people who had fled their homes, the country's state-owned railway company said Friday morning.
More than 100 other people were injured, Ukrainian Railways said, per a report from Reuters. It was not clear where the evacuees' final destination was.
Kramatorsk is located in the pro-Russian Donetsk region of Ukraine. On February 21, the Kremlin recognized Donetsk, as well as the pro-Russian region of Luhansk, as independent states, giving Russia a pretext to attack Ukraine. Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24.
Ukraine's parliament shared graphic videos and photos of dead bodies lying on the street with backpacks strewn around them. Insider has chosen not to republish the footage.
Eliot Higgins of the Bellingcat investigative news site tweeted that one of the rockets used was a Tochcka U, a Soviet-era tactical ballistic missile.
—Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) April 8, 2022
Pavlo Kryrylenko, a local government official in the region, posted on his Facebook page after the attack, saying: "The Russians knew exactly where they were hitting and who they were targeting."
A separate air strike on a train line also blocked three trains carrying evacuees from moving on Thursday, Ukrainian Railways said, according to Reuters.
Russia has consistently denied attacking civilians despite a multitude of evidence indicating so.
Both Ukrainian and Western officials said in recent weeks that Russia appeared to be repositioning its troops to eastern Ukraine.
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