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• Around 4,000 people had arrived at the train station trying to flee the Donbas region
A Russian rocket missile attacked a train station in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk killing at least 52 people and injuring more than 100, said Ukrainian authorities on Friday.
Around 4,000 people had arrived at the train station trying to flee the Donbas region after authorities asked residents to leave the area ahead of a renewed Russian offensive in the east.
Reuters reported that regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said the station was hit by a Tochka U short-range ballistic missile containing cluster munitions, which explode in mid-air, spraying small lethal bomblets over a wider area.
"Lacking the strength and courage to stand up to us on the battlefield, they are cynically destroying the civilian population," Ukraine President Volodymr Zelensky said in a statement.
"This is an evil that has no limits. And if it is not punished, it will never stop."
Cluster munitions are bombs which explode mid-air dispersing dozens of smaller bomblets over a wide area. Russia had not signed a 2008 convention under which use of cluster munitions is prohibited.
(With inputs from Reuters)
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