At least 15 people were killed and 50 wounded on Wednesday after a Russian shelling of a train station in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced at the UN Security Council. He assured that the projectiles hit directly on cars that were in the station. Late at night, the president himself raised the figure to 22 deceased through a message on Telegram. For now, Russia has not made any statement about the alleged attack.
"Chaplyne is our pain today. So far there are 22 dead, five of them burnt to death in their car, an 11-year-old teenager died, a Russian missile destroyed his house," Zelensky said in his usual late-night speech.
Search and rescue operations at the train station will continue and "we will hold the occupants accountable for everything they have done. And we will certainly drive the invaders from our land," the president added.
“I have just received information about a Russian missile attack on a station in the Dnipropetrovsk region, right on the carriages at the Chaplyne station - about 110 kilometers from Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine. Four passenger cars are on fire, ”said the Ukrainian president at the beginning of his speech, so the number of victims may still increase. According to him, "at least 15 people died and about 50 were injured." “The rescuers are working on the spot, but unfortunately the death toll may increase. This is our daily life,” added Volodymyr Zelensky.
The Ukrainian president announced this week that he feared reprisals from Russia after the assassination in Moscow of Daria Duguina, daughter of one of the most influential Russian intellectuals, the ultra-nationalist and revitalizer of Eurasianism Alexander Dugin, on the occasion of the celebration of the 31st anniversary of its independence and which coincides this Wednesday with the six months since Russia invaded Ukraine.
"It is not a surprise to anyone that Russia is trying to do something special these days. We know how they act, how they always provoke," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday when meeting in kyiv with his Polish colleague Andrzej Duda.
The notorious crime, of which Moscow directly accused kyiv, added to the sabotage actions committed in recent weeks in the territories occupied by Russian troops and in the annexed Crimean peninsula, have triggered tension between both sides in the rear.
