The Russian Defence Ministry has acknowledged the shelling of the Chaplino railway station in Ukraine’s Dnipro Region. The attack was described in a daily report covering the course of military operations in Ukraine.
"A direct hit by an Iskander missile on a military train at the Chaplino railway station in the Dnepropetrovsk region destroyed more than 200 servicemen of the Ukrainian army reserve and 10 units of military equipment en route to the Donbass war zone," the ministry said in its report.
The ministry also claimed that five Ukrainian combat aircraft were hit at the Myrhorod military airfield in the Poltava Region. "The enemy's losses in manpower amounted to up to thirty nationalists," the statement read.
According to the ministry, the Russian army destroyed the command post of the Kakhovka group of Ukrainian troops near the village of Novy Bug in the Mykolayiv Region. Sixty-four servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces had been killed as a result of the attack, the Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement.
The Office of the Prosecutor-General of Ukraine said that the Russian strike on the Chaplino railway station killed 25 people, including two children. Another 10 people were wounded.
According to Kyrylo Tymoshenko, Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, an 11-year-old boy died under the rubble of a house and a six-year-old child perished in a car blaze near the railway station.
The missile strike on Chaplino was reported yesterday by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a speech to the UN Security Council.
According to Zelensky, the missile hit a passenger train at the Chaplino railway station, resulting in four carriages catching fire.
