On Friday, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Iryna Venedyktovae announced that 164 dead had been recovered in the Bucha district of Kyiv, where a massacre of civilians was discovered after Russian soldiers withdrew.
Venedyktovae claimed 26 people were discovered under the wreckage of a collapsed building in Borodianka, another Kyiv neighborhood, yesterday, and two additional dead were discovered on Friday. She predicted that additional corpses will be found in the town's demolished structures, CNN reported.
Russia Attacks Railway Station Used by Evacuees
Meanwhile, Russian forces launched a missile strike on a train station in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, that was being used by civilians fleeing the war, killing at least 50 people, including five children, Ukrainian officials reported Friday.
Pavlo Kyrylenko, the chief of the regional military administration in Donetsk, where the incident occurred, stated 98 people were injured, including 16 children, 46 women, and 36 men. Nearly 300 people were injured in the walkout, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
During the previous two weeks, the mayor estimated that 8,000 people visited the station to flee. When the missile hit, up to 4,000 people were present. Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine's foreign minister, described the incident as a "deliberate massacre."
As Russia attacked a railway station today, horrified residents reported fields of dead bodies, and their faces charred off. Even as reports of the most barbarous bombardment out east circulated throughout Ukraine, north Kyiv rose from the ruins of shattered villages, according to Mirror.
The railway station in Kramatorsk was attacked by missiles, one of which was labeled "For What Has Been Done To The Children," killing at least 50 people, including five children, and wounding up to 300 more.
President Volodymyr Zelensky accused the Russians of lacking the strength and courage to confront us on the battlefield and of shamelessly slaughtering civilians. The despicable bombardment in Kramatorsk today was matched by the atrocities that residents in areas north of Kyiv were revealing.
EU Vows To Hasten Ukraine's Accession
Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission's chief, said the civilian casualties in the Ukrainian town of Bucha demonstrated Russia's army's "cruel face" and promised to work to hasten Ukraine's accession to the European Union.
During a visit to Bucha on Friday (April 8), where forensic investigators began exhuming victims from a mass grave, von der Leyen was clearly disturbed by what she witnessed in the town northwest of Kyiv, where Ukrainian officials claim Russian soldiers slaughtered hundreds of people.
Russia denies targeting civilians, calling reports that Russian soldiers murdered people in Bucha while occupying the city a "monstrous forgery" intended to discredit the Russian army, as per The Strait Times.
A missile attack on a railway station filled with civilians fleeing the possibility of a massive Russian invasion in eastern Ukraine killed at least 50 people and injured many more just as EU officials were about to arrive in Kyiv.
Von der Leyen blasted "the cynical actions" of people who inscribed "for our children" on firearms recovered near the scene at a press conference. Approximately 4,000 people were gathering at the station at the time, according to the mayor of Kramatorsk in Donetsk's eastern area.
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