At least 22 people were killed Wednesday in Russian shelling of the railway station in Chaplino, central Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
At the same time, more than 50 people have been injured by the attack, according to previous information, while search and rescue operations continue.
“Today we ache for Chaplino,” Zelensky said, with the Russian attack coming on the day of Ukraine’s national holiday, which this year coincided with six months since Russia’s invasion of the country.
“It is almost night (…) the Independence Day of Ukraine is ending. But our independence is not ending and it will never end,” the Ukrainian president underlined.
During the war, railway stations and infrastructures have been hit repeatedly. In April, at least 57 people were killed in an attack on the Kramatorsk railway station in the eastern Donbas region.
Elsewhere in Ukraine, an 11-year-old girl was killed yesterday in Dnipropetrovsk by Russian shelling, local officials said.
As Ukrainians celebrated their national holiday yesterday, the Russian military launched strikes against several parts of the country, including Khmelnytskyi province in the west and Zhytomyr in the north, according to Ukrainian authorities.
Meanwhile, leaders from around the world yesterday once again called on Russia to end the war and reiterated their calls for a mission of inspectors to be allowed access to the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said there was little hope the war would end quickly.
“Despite our progress on the humanitarian front, there are no signs that the conflict in Ukraine will stop, with new potential areas of escalation emerging,” Guterres told the UN Security Council.
“Today marks a sad and tragic milestone,” he added. “Thousands of civilians have been killed and injured, including children.”
“The world has seen serious violations of international human rights and international humanitarian law being committed with little or no accountability,” he said.
Guterres also warned of the possibility of a disaster at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant and called for a team of experts to be sent there under the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Several other officials agreed.
“In recent months we have seen the risk of a nuclear disaster in Europe rise. It is sad that we have to say that a nuclear power plant should never be used as a military base,” EU ambassador Silvio Gonzato said, asking Moscow to allow an international team of experts to visit the station.
For his part, Zelensky in his speech to the Security Council proposed that Russia transfer control of the nuclear plant to the IAEA.
Russia must unconditionally stop “nuclear blackmail” and completely withdraw from the station, he stressed, while stressing the importance of repelling Russian aggression.
If we don’t stop Russia now, the Ukrainian president estimated, “Russian killers will probably end up in other countries – in Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America.”
“Russia must be held accountable for the crime of aggression against Ukraine,” concluded Zelensky.
“Let’s be clear: the international community will never recognize Russia’s attempts to forcefully change Ukraine’s borders,” emphasized US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
SOURCE: AMPE
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