Kramatorsk railway station attack
On 8 April 2022, a Russian missile strike hit the railway station of the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The strike killed 63 civilians and wounded 150. Russian authorities denied responsibility and blamed the attack on Ukraine.
The aftermath of the attack
Debris from one of the missiles, with the railway station visible in the background. The top half of the inscription ЗА ДЕТЕЙ ("[in revenge] for the children") is visible.
Emergency services at the scene of the incident.
Kramatorsk is a city and the administrative centre of Kramatorsk Raion in Donetsk Oblast, Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. Prior to 2020, Kramatorsk was a city of oblast significance. Since October 2014, Kramatorsk has been the provisional seat of Donetsk Oblast, following the events surrounding the Russo-Ukrainian War's Donbas theater. Its population is 147,145. It is an important industrial and mechanical engineering center in Ukraine. Kramatorsk is on the banks of the Kazennyi Torets River which is a right tributary of the Siverskyi Donets.
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Locomotive at the Kramatorsk railway station (Kramatorskaja) of the Kursk-Kharkiv-Azov Railway
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