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The Russian general behind the attack on a Ukrainian railway station that was branded a 'crime against humanity' after it killed at least 50 civilians - including five children - who were fleeing Kremlin's atrocities
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] - Ukraine's state railway company announced attack on Kramatorsk's station, a city in the east of the country
- The governor of Ukraine's Donesk region said later on Friday the death toll had risen to at least 50 people
- Pictures from outside the station showed bodies strewn across the ground. Some were in body bags
- Other pictures showed wreckage of a missile with Russian text written on the side reading 'For (our) children'
- Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky took to Instagram to decry the attack, confirming the casualties
- Russia's defence ministry denied the attack, and instead claimed Ukraine was attacking its own civilians
- Kramatorsk is found in the east of the country, about 80 miles west of Luhansk in the country's Donbas region
- Ukrainian authorities have urged residents to flee west as Russia refocuses its military efforts in the country's eastern Donbas region after recently pulling its forces back from Kyiv
- Western officials believe Captain General Aleksandr Dvornikov, a Russian commander who oversaw devastation in Syria, is likely to have ordered yesterday’s fatal air strike on the station in Kramatorsk
Posted by: Skidmark 2022-04-09 |
