Ukraine urges civilians to flee from east as rail attack toll rises.

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Russia's attack continues, in the town of Rubizhne, in Luhansk region, Ukraine. Picture: Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Handout via Reuters.

The Russian assault on Rubizhne, Ukraine's Luhansk region, continues. The press service of Ukraine's State Emergency Service provided this image. via Reuters/Handout

Following reports that more than 50 civilians trying to flee by rail from a nearby territory had been killed in a missile attack the day before, Ukraine encouraged residents in the eastern Luhansk region to stay away from Russian soldiers amassing.

Air-raid sirens blared over eastern Ukraine, which has been the focus of Russian military actions in recent weeks following a retreat from Kyiv-regions.

"They are assembling forces for an offensive," said Luhansk Governor Serhiy Gaidai in a televised address, urging civilians to leave shelling that he said had increased in recent days.

Russia's invasion, which began on February 24, has displaced over 4 million people, killed or injured thousands, displaced a quarter of the population, and left towns in ruins.

The civilian deaths have sparked a wave of worldwide condemnation, particularly over the deaths in Bucha, which was occupied by Russian forces until last week.

People are being targeted as part of a "special operation" to demilitarize and "denazify" Russia's southern neighbor, Russia has denied. Ukraine and Western countries have slammed this as a phony justification for war.

THE STATION CAUSES THE DEATH OF FIFTY-TWO PEOPLE.

On Friday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy requested a "strong global response" to a missile assault on a railway station in Kramatorsk, a crossroads for people fleeing the east, which killed women, children, and the elderly.

As a result of the attack, blood-stained clothing, toys, and broken bags were strewn about the station's platform.

According to local mayor Oleksander Honcharenko, who estimated 4,000 people were present at the time, the dead toll has risen to at least 52.

The missiles that damaged the station were only fired by Ukraine's military, according to Russia's defense ministry, which also stated that Russia's armed forces had no objectives near Kramatorsk on Friday.

Russia's state television described the strike as a "bloody provocation" by Ukraine.

According to a senior defense official in Washington, the US does not believe Russia's denials and believes Russian forces used a short-range ballistic missile in the strike.

Reuters was unable to corroborate the incident's details.

Honcharenko estimates that just 50,000-60,000 of Kramatorsk's 220,000 citizens will remain within a week or two as people flee the violence.

THE EUROPEAN UNITED NATIONS' SUPPORT

Russian soldiers appeared to have committed war crimes in Ukraine by targeting civilians, according to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who also emphasized that the alleged cases must be probed by attorneys.

After a visit to Ukraine, von der Leyen said she witnessed the destruction of Bucha, a town near Kyiv, with her own eyes on Friday. According to local officials, a forensics team began exhuming a mass grave containing the bodies of locals killed while Russians ruled the area on Friday.

 

"If this isn't a war crime, what is?" von der Leyen said to reporters as he boarded a train bound for Ukraine. "However, I am a medical doctor by training, and attorneys must scrutinize everything," von der Leyen explained.

 The Kremlin has persistently disputed allegations of war crimes, calling tales of Russian soldiers murdering civilians in Bucha a "monstrous fake."

According to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the perpetrators of civilian killings in Bucha are guilty of war crimes and must be held accountable..

 

On Friday, the EU overcame some divides to enact further measures, including import prohibitions on coal, timber, chemicals, and other items, as well as the freezing of EU assets owned by President Vladimir Putin's daughters and other billionaires.

In a video message delivered on Friday evening, Zelenskiy called on the West to do more, including implementing an energy embargo and isolating all Russian institutions from the global financial system.

WAR HAS THE POTENTIAL TO LAST YEARS.

Moscow, according to the Ukrainian military, is planning a push to retake complete control of the Donbas areas of Donetsk and Luhansk, which have been held in part by Moscow-backed rebels since 2014..

According to a British Defence Ministry intelligence assessment, air assaults are anticipated to escalate in the south and east as Russia attempts to build a land bridge between Crimea, which Moscow took in 2014, and the Donbas, but Ukrainian troops are blocking the approach.

The Russian military said on Saturday that an arsenal storage at the Myrhorod Air Base in central-eastern Ukraine had been destroyed.

The Kremlin stated on Friday that the operation might be over in the "near future," with the Russian military and peace mediators achieving their objectives.

The battle, according to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, might continue months or perhaps years.

Reuters.

 

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