At least 22 killed, 50 hurt in Russian missile strikes at Ukraine railway station

At least22 people were killed and50 wounded after Russian missile strikes hit a Ukraine railway station on Wednesday, the 31st Independence Day of the war-ravaged country.

The strikes came as Ukrainemarked its independence and incidentally also the six months of its war with Russia.

“I have just received information about a Russian missile strike on a railway station in the (central) Dnipropetrovsk region," Zelensky informed in a speech to the UN Security Council on Wednesday.

The Ukrainian leader added that the strike was "right on the wagons at Chaplino station. Four passenger cars are on fire", reportedAFP.

Zelensky said he expects the number of casualties to increase. "Rescuers are working on the spot, but the death toll may rise, unfortunately. This is our daily life," Zelensky said.

The images of destruction were shared by Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba on Twitter.

The photos purportedly show a number of smouldering rail carriages which seem to have suffered fire damage, as well as burned-out road vehicles and fallen masonry.

The minister said civilians had been killed in the attack, and blamed Russia for the missile strike.

Meanwhile, several missile strikes took place across Ukrainian territory on Wednesday, according to Yuriy Sak, adviser to the Ukrainian defence minister Oleksii Reznikov.

“The aggressor … proved the expectations that we had and is conducting today missile strikes across the Ukrainian territory,” Sak told CNN.

Sak said that Ukraine had “been receiving warnings about the possibility of massive missile strikes” on Ukraine’s Independence Day for nearly a week.

(With inputs from agencies)

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