Russia launched a missile attack on a train station in the Ukrainian town of Chaplyne, killing at least 22 and wounding dozens more on the country's highest national holiday. It was one of the deadliest single attacks on a civilian site in recent weeks.
As Ukrainians marked the 31st anniversary of their country’s break from the Soviet Union with a somber parade in Kyiv on Wednesday, Russia launched a deadly missile attack on a train station in a town 300 miles southeast, killing at least 22 and wounding dozens more, officials said.
And while the assault on Chaplyne, in a rural part of the Dnipropetrovsk region, was a disaster on a smaller scale than those initial fears, the death toll was substantial — one of the deadliest single attacks on a civilian site in recent weeks. It also underscored Russia’s targeting of transportation infrastructure, a strategy ostensibly meant to disrupt weapons supply routes but that has also killed scores of bystanders.
Search and rescue crews were still sifting the rubble at the train station late Wednesday evening, and Zelensky said the death toll could rise. The president initially said 50 people were injured, but a later assessment from the deputy head of his office, Kirill Timoshenko, put the number around two dozen.an earlier strike on the town leveled a resident’s home, trapping a woman and two children beneath the wreckage. One of the children, an 11-year-old boy, was killed, he said.
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