Russian forces launched a rocket attack on a Ukrainian railway station that killed at least 15 people including an 11-year-old child and wounded 50 others today – six months to the day since Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of the country, and 31 years after the former Soviet country broke away from Moscow’s rule.
Volodymyr Zelensky told the UN Security Council that a Russian missile strike hit a passenger train and nearby vehicles at the rural train station in Chaplyne, a a town of about 3,500 people in the Dnipropetrovsk region – the scene of intense recent fighting between Ukrainian and Kremlin forces.
The wartime President had previously warned that the ‘erratic’ Russian dictator would use the killing of the daughter of his ultra-nationalist aide Alexander Dugin – dubbed ‘Putin’s Rasputin’ – in a car bombing in Moscow last week as a pretext to ratchet up his war on the embattled European country.
While most fighting is now taking place in the east and south, where…
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