At least 22 people have been killed in a Russian attack on a railway station in eastern Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky has said.<\/p>\n
The rocket attack in Chaplyne, a town of about 3,500 people in the Dnipropetrovsk region, came as Ukrainians across the world marked the country\u2019s Independence Day.<\/p>\n
Mr Zelensky had warned Russia may attempt \u201csomething particularly cruel\u201d to coincide with the celebrations.<\/p>\n
The death toll was quoted Mr Zelensky in a video address to the UN Security Council.<\/p>\n
The president\u2019s office also reported that an 11-year-old child was killed by rocket fire in another part of the region.<\/p>\n
Ukraine had been braced for especially heavy attacks surrounding the national holiday that commemorates its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.<\/p>\n
More to follow…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At least 22 people have been killed in a Russian attack on a railway station in eastern Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky has said. The rocket attack in Chaplyne, a town of about 3,500 people in the Dnipropetrovsk region, came as Ukrainians across the world marked the country\u2019s Independence Day. Mr Zelensky had warned Russia may attempt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n