RESCUERS SEARCH RUBBLE FROM CHAPLYNE TRAIN ATTACK THAT KILLED 22

Thu 25 August 2022:

Rescuers are digging through the rubble at the train station in Chaplyne, a small town in eastern Ukraine after Russian missiles targeted the site and killed 22 people were killed.

Exactly six months after Moscow invaded its western neighbour, a Russian strike on Ukraine’s independence day killed at least 22 people and wounded scores of others at a railway station in the centre of the country — according to a new death toll announced on Wednesday evening by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

“Chaplyne is our pain today. As of this moment there are 22 dead,” President Zelenskyy said in an evening video address to the United Nations Security Council.

Ukraine would hold Russia responsible for all it had done, he added.

Chaplyne lies some 145km (90 miles) west of Russian-occupied Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.

Zelenskyy aide Kyrylo Tymoshenko later said Russian forces had shelled Chaplyne twice.

A boy was killed in the first attack when a missile hit his house, and 22 people died later when rockets hit the railway station and set fire to five train carriages, he said in a statement.

The Russian defence ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Russia denies targeting civilians.

Images shared by Ukrainian outlets showed several train carriages, as well as several cars and what is said to be the town’s train station completely devastated by an apparent explosion and resulting fire.

Photos from Chaplyne station, at least 15 killed in Russian missile strike https://t.co/b3CTIpv9gv pic.twitter.com/UqL8jqR239

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According to UN numbers, at least 5,587 civilians had been killed and 7,890 wounded in Ukraine since 24 February.

More than half of these deaths took place in the eastern Donbas region, where fighting has been further intensified since the beginning of the invasion.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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