Death toll from Russian missile strike on Kramatorsk train station grows to 59

The death toll from a Russian rocket attack on the Kramatorsk train station has risen to 59 - two more children have died in the hospital.

The Kramatorsk City Council said this in a statement posted on Telegram, Ukrinform reports.

"The number of children who died in the shelling of the Kramatorsk train station has increased to 7. Two more children died in the hospital… Thus, the total number of people who died as a result of the Russian shelling of the Kramatorsk train station increased to 59," the report says.

As Ukrinform reported, Russian forces launched a missile attack against the train station in Kramatorsk on April 8. At the time of the shelling, there were thousands of people waiting to be evacuated to the safer regions of Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the Russians hit the Kramatorsk train station with Tochka-U missiles.

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