It is the 44th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The leaders of the European Union will meet this Friday in kyiv with the Ukrainian president Volodímir Zelenski to discuss the new economic and energy sanctions to the Russian invader. In this same area, Russia’s suspension from the UN Human Rights Council was also confirmed with 93 votes in favor, 24 against and 58 abstentions.
Also, after learning of a missile attack on the Kramatorsk train station where there were civilians, the parties have ruled on the alleged authorship of the attack that left at least 30 dead and 100 injured.
Unicef condemns the attack on the Kramatorsk station and fears “the worst”; April 8, 9:40 a.m.
Unicef condemned this Friday the attack on the train station in the town of Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine, which left at least 50 dead and said that “the worst” is feared in terms of the possible number of children killed and injured.
“We still don’t know how many children have been killed and injured in the attack, but we fear the worst,” Murat Sahin, the Ukraine representative for the UN children’s agency, said in a statement.
Sahin recalled that the Kramatorsk station has been “the main exit route for thousands of families evacuated from Donetsk province”, one of the hardest hit by the war in the country.
At least 50 people, including five children, have been killed in the attack, according to Ukrainian authorities, who blamed Russia for the action.
the missiles they fell into the station when there were thousands of people waiting to be evacuatedaccording to local authorities.
Unicef, as noted in its statement that it supplied medical equipment and emergency products to Kramatorsk this Friday, where it has brought some 50 tons of humanitarian aid so far this week. to respond to the “rapidly deteriorating” situation in the eastern regions from the country.
When the attack took place, a team from the UN agency was just a kilometer from the train station, delivering aid to the regional health department.
About 50 killed, including 5 children, in attack on Ukrainian train station; April 8, 9:30 a.m.
The attack on the Ukrainian train station in Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine, has caused at least 50 dead, including five childrenaccording to local authorities, who recall that thousands of people had gathered there awaiting their evacuation.
As reported through his twitter account, the governor of Donetsk, Pavlo Kirilenko, the number of wounded admitted to hospitals rises to 98many of them serious.
Mayor of Chernigov puts the death toll from Russian attacks at around 700; April 8, 9:00 a.m.
Some 700 people, including soldiers and civilians, have died in the Ukrainian city of Chernigov as consequence of the bombings and attacks of the Russian armyand seventy bodies have not been identified, its mayor, Vladyslav Atroshenko, reported this Friday.
“I can give an approximate figure: there are 700 people, between military and civilians. In addition, there are seventy unidentified bodies, of which we cannot determine who they are, “he said in a virtual appearance collected by the Unian agency.
Furthermore, “the most terrible thing is that at least forty people are listed as missing”, he indicated.
“The cause is understood, but there is no evidence,” he added, explaining that the people who were within a radius of between 40 and 50 meters from where an aerial bomb hit, burned completely and their bodies no longer exist.
According to figures from the mayor, between 80,000 and 95,000 people are currently still in Chernigov, a city that experience a humanitarian catastrophe and that before the war began it had between 285,000 and 290,000 inhabitants.
Borrell announces more military aid to Ukraine and the return of the EU to kyiv; April 8, 5:30 a.m.
The High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, announced this Friday that the European Union is going to allocate another 500 million euros for military aid to Ukraine and that the political community once again has representation in the Ukrainian capital.
“I am pleased to announce here in kyiv that the European Union is going to allocate another 500 million euros from the European Peace Fund for the Ukrainian army to obtain weapons to defend their country and their people,” said Borrell.
The head of European diplomacy is visiting Ukraine with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the Slovak Prime Minister, Eduard Heger.
This new allocation “comes on top of the unprecedented one billion euro package that we released since the beginning of the invasion. Our support now amounts to 1,500 million euros”, Borrell specified.
The Spanish politician also announced that “the EU returns to kyiv”. “I mean literally: our Head of Delegation has returned to kyiv, so that we can work together even more directly and closely.”
Zelenski accuses Russia of “exterminating” civilians after train station attack; April 8, 5:20 a.m.
The President of Ukraine, Volodímir Zelenski, assured this Friday that the attack on a train station in Kramatorsk, in the east of the country and that caused at least 30 deaths and a hundred wounded, is proof that Russia “exterminates” the civilian population.
Zelensky said that the attack was carried out with Tochka-U missiles against the railway station, “where thousands of civilians were waiting to be evacuated… Nearly 30 people died, nearly 100 were injured of varying severity.”
“Police and riot police are on the ground. The inhuman Russians do not abandon their methods. Not having the strength and courage to oppose us on the battlefield, they cynically exterminate the civilian population,” the Ukrainian president added.
“This is an evil that has no limits. And if it is not punished, it will never stop,” Zelensky added.
At least 30 killed in attack on train station in eastern Ukraine; April 8, 4:40 a.m.
A missile attack on the Kramatorsk railway station causedl least 30 dead and more than a hundred woundedas reported by the managing body of the Ukrainian railways.
“This is a deliberate blow to the railway’s passenger infrastructure and the residents of Kramatorsk,” a town in the northern Donetsk region of Ukraine, Ukrainian Railways reported on Facebook.
The railway company also published a photograph in which se can see a body lying on the ground near several wrecked cars in what appears to be a parking lot, with bags and luggage strewn across the road.
The head of the Donetsk regional military administration, Pavlo Kirilenko, stated on his Telegram account: “Russian fascists attacked the Kramatorsk railway station with an Iskander. Police and guards on the ground report dozens of deaths and injuries.”
Kirilenko adds that “thousands of people were at the station at the time of the missile attack, while Donetsk residents were evacuated to the safest regions of Ukraine.”