Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky informed on social media that at least 30 people were injured in the Russian attack on a train and the railway station in Shostka, Sumy Oblast. He added that all emergency services were on site providing assistance.
According to the Ukrainian Ministry of Development, it was a double-tap attack. The first strike targeted a commuter train waiting at the station. As the evacuation started, a second attack hit the Shostka-Kyiv intercity train. The full number of casualties is still being determined - although it is known that both railway workers and passengers were among the wounded.
"The Russians could not have failed to realize that they were attacking civilians. This is terror that the world cannot ignore" - President Volodymyr Zelenskyy commented on social media. As he emphasized - the response has to come in the form of "real, decisive actions - not just words".
Russia first illegally invaded Ukraine in 2014 - and has occupied its entire region of Crimea and large chunks of its Donbass and Luhansk regions ever since. On February 24, 2022, Moscow took things further - mounting an unlawful and unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and starting the largest military campaign in Europe since World War II.
Numerous reports from a variety of reliable sources clearly confirm that from the start Russians have been committing countless war crimes in Ukraine - breaking the Geneva convention on a daily basis and harming tens of thousands of civilians, both in the occupied areas and through daily missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian cities.
The list of well-documented Russian transgressions includes regular attacks on non-military targets, notwithstanding hospitals, cultural institutions and housing. Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine started, Moscow's troops have been found to be murdering and torturing both war prisoners and civilians en masse, also kidnapping thousands of Ukrainian children into Russia and using internationally forbidden weapons on a regular basis.
Saturday is day 1319 of Ukraine's heroic resistance against full-scale Russian war of aggression.
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Source: IAR, PAP