Death toll from Russian missile strike on Kramatorsk grows to 50

Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk regional military administration, said this on Telegram, Ukrinform reports.

"Fifty people were killed, among them five children. We now have such a large number of victims as a result of a Tochka-U missile strike by Russian occupation troops on the Kramatorsk railway station. So far, 98 people have been hospitalized. We expect other victims to seek medical help within a day or two, so the number of victims will be constantly changing," he said.

He noted that among those injured, 16 are children, 46 are women and 36 are men. Twelve of them died at the hospital, and 38 people died at the station.

"The Russian occupiers must be punished for all their crimes committed on our land," Kyrylenko said.

Two Russian missiles hit the Kramatorsk railway station early on Friday, April 8. Civilians are evacuated from this station every day. Trains depart for cities in the west and center of Ukraine.

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