Around 30 people were killed and more than 100 injured after a Russian missile struck a train station in the city of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine on Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a statement.
What they’re saying: Zelensky said “thousands” of people fleeing fighting in Ukraine’s Donbas region were at the station awaiting evacuation at the time of the strike. It’s another apparent instance of Russia bombing civilian targets during its invasion of Ukraine.
- “Russian non-humans do not abandon their methods,” Zelensky said. “Lacking the strength and courage to stand up to us on the battlefield, they are cynically destroying the civilian population. This is an evil that has no limits. And if it is not punished, it will never stop.”
The big picture: At least 300 people were killed by a Russian airstrike on a theater in Mariupol, where Russian forces also struck an art school, a mosque and a children’s hospital, Ukrainian authorities said.