Ukrainian leaders warned this Friday that there will be more findings of massacres and violence in the cities and towns recovered from the Russian troops, after the international commotion that generated the death of hundreds of civilians in Bucha, a suburb of the Ukrainian capital, kyiv.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the horrors of Bucha, where the bodies of people found dead at close range in the streets and in cellars, had already come to light in a worse way in Borodianka, another settlement outside the capital.
Ukraine also accused Russia early Friday of
bombing a train station in the city of Kramatorsk, in the rebel Donetsk region
, leaving dozens dead and a hundred wounded, although the number of victims has not yet been corroborated. independently.
Russia has denied being behind the attack.
After failing to take kyiv, Russia shifted its focus to Donbas, a mostly Russian-speaking industrial region in eastern Ukraine where Moscow-backed rebels have been fighting Ukrainian forces for eight years.
Ukrainian officials warned residents this week to leave as soon as possible, The Associated Press reported.
[The United States and the UN reinforce the punishment of Russia for the atrocities committed in Ukraine]
A victim lies on the platform after a rocket attack on the train station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk, in the Donbass region on April 8, 2022.ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images
Zelenskyy criticized Russian forces for "destroying the civilian population" after it emerged that rockets hit the train station in Kramatorsk, where thousands of people were waiting to be evacuated.
“Lacking the strength and courage to face us on the battlefield,
they are cynically destroying the civilian population.
This is an evil that has no limits
.
And if it is not punished, it will never stop," Zelenskyy said in a statement.
on its official Telegram channel.
Russia's defense minister said Friday that the missile in the attack is used by the Ukrainian military, and that it used one of them on March 14 to bomb the city center of Donetsk, killing 14 people.
The United States and the European Union increased their sanctions against Russia, condemning the actions of its army, which were classified as war crimes.
In addition, the United Nations expelled the country from the Human Rights Council.
Deadly attack on a train station
More than 30 people were killed after two Russian rockets hit a train station in Kramatorsk, a city in the Donetsk region, as thousands of Ukrainians tried to flee the area on Friday, Ukraine's state railway company said.
The Ukrainian Railways said on its Telegram channel that more than 100 people were also injured in the attacks, NBC News reported.
The attacks or the number of reported deaths and injuries could not be independently verified.
Regional Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said thousands of people were at the train station at the time of the strike, preparing to head to safer regions.
In a statement posted on his official Telegram channel, Kyrylenko accused Russian forces of intentionally attacking the station, saying they "well knew where they were aiming and what they wanted: to take as many peaceful people as possible hostage."
"This is a deliberate blow to the railway's passenger infrastructure and residents of Kramatorsk," the head of the Ukrainian Railways, Alexander Kamyshin, wrote on the company's Telegram channel.
"The same cruelty, the same crimes"
Zelenskyy noted that more atrocities will be uncovered in cities that have been under Russian siege.
“What will happen when the world learns the whole truth about what the Russian troops did in Mariupol?” he said Thursday night, referring to the southern port that has suffered some of the most suffering since Russia invaded Ukraine.
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“There, on every street, is what the world saw in Bucha and other cities of the kyiv region after the departure of the Russian troops.
The same cruelty.
The same terrible crimes,” he assured.
Ukraine and several Western leaders have blamed the massacres on Russian troops.
The weekly magazine Der Spiegel reported that Germany's foreign intelligence agency intercepted radio messages between Russian soldiers that spoke of killing civilians.
Russia has falsely claimed that the scenes in Bucha were staged.
They investigate what happened in Bucha
Bucha Mayor Anatoliy Fedoruk said investigators had found at least three sites of mass shootings of civilians during the Russian occupation.
Most of the victims were shot, not shelled, he said, and some bodies with their hands tied were “dumped like firewood” in mass graves, including one in a children's camp.
Fedoruk said 320 civilians had been confirmed dead as of Wednesday, but he expected more as bodies were found in the city that was home to 50,000 people.
There are only 3,700 left, he said.
Thousands of Ukrainian refugees are already arriving at the border.
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In his late-night speech, Zelenskyy said Bucha's horrors may just be the beginning.
In the northern town of Borodianka, just 30 kilometers (20 miles) northwest of Bucha, he warned of even more victims, saying "it's much more horrible there."
Peace agreement at risk
The United Nations humanitarian chief told The Associated Press on Thursday that he is "not optimistic" about a potential ceasefire after meeting with officials in Russia and Ukraine this week, given a lack of trust between the sides.
He spoke hours after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused Ukraine of backing down on proposals it had made on Crimea and Ukraine's military status.