By Ruslan Rehimov
KYIV (AA) – Over 30 people were killed and more than 100 injured in a Russian attack on a railway station in eastern Ukraine on Friday, the state railway company said.
Two rockets hit a station in Kramatorsk, a city in the Donetsk region, where scores of people were waiting to be evacuated to safer areas, according to Ukrainian Railways.
Images shared by the authority on Telegram showed bodies and blood on the ground, with suitcases and other luggage strewn all around.
Pavel Kirilenko, governor of Donetsk, said Russian forces hit the railway station with an Iskander missile containing cluster munitions.
At least 1,611 civilians have been killed and 2,227 injured in Ukraine since the war began on Feb. 24, according to UN estimates, with the true figure feared to be far higher.
More than 4.3 million Ukrainians have fled to other countries, with millions more internally displaced, according to the UN refugee agency.
* Writing by Seda Sevencan