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Russians Wrote "For Children" On Missile That Killed Refugees At Train Station by OLAADEGBU(op): 10:24am On Apr 09, 2022
Twisted Russians wrote 'for our children' on missile used in attack on Ukrainian railway station refugees that killed at least 50 civilians - including five children - who were fleeing Putin's atrocities

• Ukraine's state railway company announced attack on Kramatorsk's station, a city in the east of the country
• The governor of Ukraine's Donesk region said later on Friday the death toll had risen to at least 50 people
• Pictures from outside the station showed bodies strewn across the ground. Some were in body bags
• Other pictures showed wreckage of a missile with Russian text written on the side reading 'For (our) children'
• Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky took to Instagram to decry the attack, confirming the casualties
• Russia's defence ministry denied the attack, and instead claimed Ukraine was attacking its own civilians
• Kramatorsk is found in the east of the country, about 80 miles west of Luhansk in the country's Donbas region
• Ukrainian authorities have urged residents to flee west as Russia refocuses its military efforts in the country's eastern Donbas region after recently pulling its forces back from Kyiv
• WARNING: Graphic images

By CHRIS JEWERS FOR MAILONLINE and AFP
PUBLISHED: 09:39, 8 April 2022 | UPDATED: 17:02, 8 April 2022

Russian soldiers wrote a message of revenge on the missile that killed at least 50 people - including five children - and wounded 98 when two strikes hit a railway station in east Ukraine today, as thousands of desperate evacuees tried reach safer parts of the country.

Graphic pictures on Friday from Kramatorsk showed bodies strewn across the floor, lying amongst luggage and children's prams outside the city's busy station. Some had already been put into green body bags, while other photos showed smoke rising from the building as firefighters rushed to the scene.

The wreckage of a large missile was left lying on the grass outside the station. White Russian text was shown written down the side of its casing, which read: 'For (our) Children' - a revenge message from the pro-Moscow soldiers that launched it. It is believed to be the result of Russian propaganda brainwashing troops into believing Ukraine is carrying out atrocities in the east of the country.

Military commentators said the missile used in the attack was a Soviet-era Tochka U missile - accurate to within 200 to 500 feet. The station is found in the centre of Kramatorsk - a town of more than 150,000 people. Both Russian and Ukraine both still use the missiles, and the evacuations would have been known about.

Although Moscow denied the attack saying Ukraine also the same missile, the projectile was painted green as Russian weapons are - while Kyiv's equivalent is painted grey, according to experts.

Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky took to Instagram to decry the attack, and confirmed the reports of casualties. '[Russian forces] are cynically destroying the civilian population. This is an evil that has no limits. And if it is not punished, it will never stop,' he wrote. He said no Ukrainian soldiers were at the station when it was hit.

'Fifty dead, five of them children. This is the death toll at this hour after the strike by Russian occupational forces on the train station in Kramatorsk,' Pavlo Kyrylenko, the governor of the Donetsk region, said on Telegram.

He warned that the number of victims is likely to change, saying there are still 98 people wounded, including 16 children. Kyrylenko said 12 of the victims died from their wounds in hospital, while 38 were killed 'on the spot.'

Ukraine's Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova called the attack was a 'crime against humanity.'

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Russian soldiers wrote a chilling message of revenge on the missile (pictured Friday being inspected by Ukrainian investigators) that killed at least 39 people - including four children - and wounded 87 when two strikes hit a railway station in east Ukraine today, as thousands of desperate evacuees tried reach safer parts of the country

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/04/08/09/56369211-10699187-The_strike_was_on_Kramatorsk_s_train_station_with_graphic_pictur-a-14_1649408022920.jpg
The strike was on Kramatorsk's train station, with graphic pictures on Friday showing bodies strewn across floor outside, lying amongst abandoned luggage

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/04/08/09/56369213-10699187-Pictured_A_scene_of_devastation_outside_the_train_station_on_Fri-a-15_1649408022939.jpg
Pictured: A scene of devastation outside the train station on Friday after 'Russian' missiles struck, killing more than 30 people

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Regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said thousands of people were at the train station at the time of the strike, preparing to evacuate to safer regions as Russia focuses its troops in eastern Ukraine. Pictured: Body bags are seen outside the station

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A view of people's belongings and bloodstains on the ground after a missile strike on a railway station in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, in this picture uploaded on April 8, 2022

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Kramatorsk is found in the east of the country, about 80 miles west of Luhansk. Pictures this week have shown hundreds of people at the station boarding trains heading west

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/04/08/09/56368999-10699187-Pictured_Smoke_rises_from_the_station_on_Friday_as_firefighters_-a-13_1649408022911.jpg
Pictured: Smoke rises from the station on Friday as firefighters work at the scene

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The Mayor of Kramatorsk Oleksander Honcharenko said there were around 4,000 people at the city's railway station when it was bombed by at least two rockets. He said most were women, elderly and children preparing to evacuate to safer regions as Russia focuses its troops in eastern Ukraine.

Honcharenko told Ukrainian TV that between 30 and 40 surgeons were treating the wounded, and hospitals were unable to cope with the surge in admissions.

The EU directly accused Russia of the 'horrifying' attack, while Britain's defence secretary Ben Wallace called it a 'war crime' that used 'precision missiles'.

Meanwhile TASS - another state-run news agency - reported that Donetsk separatist commander Eduard Basurin said the attack on the station was Ukrainian 'provocation' against Russia.

Moscow said the missile was of a type used only by the Ukrainian military, and similar to one that hit the centre of the city of Donetsk on March 14, killing 17 people, RIA reported. However pictures from the scene show it was painted green, while Ukrainian versions are painted grey, according to experts.

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Re: Russians Wrote "For Children" On Missile That Killed Refugees At Train Station by Malory: 10:25am On Apr 09, 2022
Putin is a monster in human body
Re: Russians Wrote "For Children" On Missile That Killed Refugees At Train Station by Nukilia: 11:04am On Apr 09, 2022
I suspect Ukrainians sad
Re: Russians Wrote "For Children" On Missile That Killed Refugees At Train Station by sunboy(m):
That definitely look staged, at this point I don’t want to believe everything that’s coming out of Ukraine/Russia anymore.
Re: Russians Wrote "For Children" On Missile That Killed Refugees At Train Station by Kastonkastroll(m): 12:07pm On Apr 09, 2022
Lies and propaganda by the Ukrainians
Re: Russians Wrote "For Children" On Missile That Killed Refugees At Train Station by ken6488(m): 12:14pm On Apr 09, 2022
Lies are much now
Re: Russians Wrote "For Children" On Missile That Killed Refugees At Train Station by Elvictor: 1:03pm On Apr 09, 2022
Coming from Ukraine controlled territory, nawa oh
Re: Russians Wrote "For Children" On Missile That Killed Refugees At Train Station by Horus(m): 1:36pm On Apr 09, 2022
Ukrainian soldiers wrote the message after the missile landed on the grass outside the station to incriminate Russians
Re: Russians Wrote "For Children" On Missile That Killed Refugees At Train Station by leobergy(m): 2:06pm On Apr 09, 2022
Malory:
Putin is a monster in human body
Idiot
Re: Russians Wrote "For Children" On Missile That Killed Refugees At Train Station by OhMyG0d:
I think it's time you lots use your sense for once. The missiles that WERE used were fired by the Ukrainian Military.

Russia make use of ISKANDER while Ukraine use TOCHKA-U. The Tochka-U is EXCLUSIVELY used and fielded by the Ukrainian Military.
The missiles used is from the Ukrainian land force.

The number 1 picture is the Ukrainian Tochka-U.
The number 2 picture is from the scene of attack.
The number 3 is the Russian ISKANDER.

The Tochka-U missile used was tipped with cluster munitions, reason for the high civilian's death.

Re: Russians Wrote "For Children" On Missile That Killed Refugees At Train Station by Obrigardo: 3:14pm On Apr 09, 2022
This is the kind of story that gives basiloco an erection
Re: Russians Wrote "For Children" On Missile That Killed Refugees At Train Station by Obrigardo: 3:19pm On Apr 09, 2022
OLAADEGBU:
Russians wrote "For Children" On Missile That Killed Ukrainian Refugees At Train Station.
What happened pastor? You no longer a putin fanboy?
Re: Russians Wrote "For Children" On Missile That Killed Refugees At Train Station by OLAADEGBU(op): 6:13pm On Apr 09, 2022
Obrigardo:
What happened pastor? You no longer a putin fanboy?
Who is Putin's fanboy? Just don't do selective reporting. cool

Re: Russians Wrote "For Children" On Missile That Killed Refugees At Train Station by OLAADEGBU(op): 6:25pm On Apr 09, 2022
A.F. Branco Cartoon – New World Disorder
A.F. BRANCO on March 14, 2022 at 6:00 am

Putin vs Biden World Views
https://comicallyincorrect.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/02-world-views-li-1080-1050x750.jpg

Putin Is Dangerously evil and Biden is Dangerously mentally deficient, both jeopardize the world. Political cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2021.
Re: Russians Wrote "For Children" On Missile That Killed Refugees At Train Station by Adjovi: 6:35pm On Apr 09, 2022
This propaganda is now becoming boring.
Re: Russians Wrote "For Children" On Missile That Killed Refugees At Train Station by OLAADEGBU(op): 12:55pm On Apr 10, 2022
Indiscriminate Evil
Michael Ramirez March 10, 2022

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Russia lost the battle against the Ukraine Army, so now it's fighting against babies, mothers and the elderly.
Re: Russians Wrote "For Children" On Missile That Killed Refugees At Train Station by OLAADEGBU(op): 12:56pm On Apr 10, 2022
Re: Russians Wrote "For Children" On Missile That Killed Refugees At Train Station by OLAADEGBU(op): 12:58pm On Apr 10, 2022
Evil Aims
Gary Varvel March 8, 2022

https://www.conservativedailynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/gv030822dAPR-780x557.jpg
Putin's tried to convince the world his invasion of Ukraine was just. It backfired.
Re: Russians Wrote "For Children" On Missile That Killed Refugees At Train Station by leofab(f): 6:34pm On Apr 10, 2022
OhMyG0d:
I think it's time you lots use your sense for once. The missiles that WERE used were fired by the Ukrainian Military.

Russia make use of ISKANDER while Ukraine use TOCHKA-U. The Tochka-U is EXCLUSIVELY used and fielded by the Ukrainian Military.
The missiles used is from the Ukrainian land force.

The number 1 picture is the Ukrainian Tochka-U.
The number 2 picture is from the scene of attack.
The number 3 is the Russian ISKANDER.

The Tochka-U missile used was tipped with cluster munitions, reason for the high civilian's death.
captured Ukrainian Tochka-U ?
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