A Russian missile strike on a train station in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, that was heavily crowded killed at least 50 people on Friday, according to Ukrainian officials, per multiple reports.
Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, said that 98 people were wounded, including 16 children, 36 women, and 46 men, according to CNN. He added that 38 people died at the station and another 12 people died at the hospital, according to NPR.
Kyrylenko posted to Facebook of the aftermath of the rocket attack with some graphic pictures. He then followed that up with another post, saying that 52 people have died from the attack, including five children.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the devastating attack, calling it an "evil that knows no bounds."
"The invaders hit the 'point-in' at the Kramatorsk railway station, where thousands of peaceful Ukrainians were waiting for evacuation... About 30 were killed, about 100 people were injured of varying degrees of severity," Zelensky said in the Facebook post.
"Police and rescuers are already at the scene. Russian non-humans do not leave their methods. Not having the strength and courage to confront us on the battlefield, they are cynically destroying the civilian population. This is evil that knows no bounds. And if it is not punished it will never stop."
Kramatorsk Mayor Oleksander Honcharenko said nearly 4,000 people were at the train station when the Russian missile hit.
"Some people have lost a leg, others an arm. They are now receiving medical assistance. The hospitals are carrying out about 40 operations simultaneously," Honcharenko said, per Reuters.
European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said "there are almost no words for it," when asked by reporters about the attack, per the Associated Press. "The cynical behavior (by Russia) has almost no benchmark anymore."
The Russian Ministry of Defense responded to the attack on Friday in a statement, saying it "absolutely do not correspond to reality."
"All the statements of representatives of the Kyiv nationalist regime about the alleged 'missile attack' by Russia on April 8 at the railway station in Kramatorsk are a provocation and absolutely do not correspond to reality," the statement said, per CNN.
"On April 8, the Russian armed forces did not conduct or plan any artillery fires in the city of Kramatorsk. We emphasize that the Tochka-U tactical missiles, the wreckage of which was found near the Kramatorsk railway station and published by eyewitnesses, are used only by the Ukrainian armed forces."
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