প্রকাশ: 25/08/2022
A Russian rocket strike on a Ukrainian train station has
killed 22 people, Ukraine says, on the day marking six months since Moscow's
invasion began.
It says five of the victims of the attack in the eastern
town of Chaplyne burnt to death in a vehicle. An 11-year-old boy also was
killed.
President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the strike in the
middle of a UN Security Council meeting. He said about 50 people were injured.
Russia has so far made no comment.
It has repeatedly denied targeting civilian infrastructure.
Mr Zelensky said he learned of the strike on Chaplyne, in
the Dnipropetrovsk region, as he was preparing to speak to the Security
Council, adding: "This is how Russia prepared for the UN Security council
meeting".
"Four passenger carriages are on fire now... the number
of fatalities could increase," he said.
Ukraine has spent Wednesday marking its annual Independence
Day and Mr Zelensky had previously said Russia might do something
"cruel" to disrupt the celebrations.
Earlier he accused Moscow's forces of turning the
Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant into a "war zone" that endangered the
plant and the people of Europe and put the world "on the brink of
radiation catastrophe".
The UN Secretary General told the same meeting that the
"senseless war" could push millions of people into extreme poverty,
both in Ukraine and beyond.
Around the world, there were gatherings of supporters in the
streets to mark Ukraine's independence today. World leaders also rallied to
support the embattled nation to mark the occasion.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson appeared in Kyiv on an
unannounced trip to show his country's support, announcing £54m ($63.5m) in new
military aid - a figure dwarfed by an announcement from US President Joe Biden
of an extra $3bn (£2.5bn).
Messages of support arrived from across the globe: from
Australia, Germany, Finland, Poland, Turkey and more. In the Vatican, Pope
Francis called for "concrete steps" to end the war and avert the risk
of a nuclear disaster at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant - Europe's
largest.
But in the streets of Kyiv, it was relatively quiet.
Ukraine had banned large gatherings and events over fears
that Russia could target such civilian gatherings. It followed a warning from
the US for any of its citizens to leave ahead of the anniversary.
Some gathered anyway on Khreshchatyk Street to look at the
array of captured Russian tanks and armoured vehicles put on display instead of
the usual Ukrainian parade.
Between his political speeches, President Zelensky and his
wife also attended a memorial ceremony for the fallen soldiers and civilians of
the war, laying yellow and blue flowers at Kyiv's Memory Wall of Fallen
Defenders.
Earlier this week, Ukrainian officials gave their first update on military causalities in some time - saying that nearly 9,000 soldiers had been killed in the six-month conflict, though that number cannot be independently verified.
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