Russian strike on Dnipro train station kills at least 13, says Zelenskiy

Russia hit a railway station in Ukraine’s third largest city of Dnipro, killing at least 13 civilians, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday.Ten more people were injured in the drone strike that took place as two scheduled trains were waiting for passengers at the platform, according to the president.Russia has been targeting civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, leading to a rising death toll as the Kremlin tries to break the population’s morale ahead of the fifth winter of its full-scale invasion.“Just how many terrorist strikes has Russia carried out against our people since sanctions were lifted on certain Russian oligarchs and the Russian energy sector, rather than de-escalating?” Zelenskiy said in a post on X social media platform.READ MORE“This is precisely why Ukraine has always said that just and decisive action by America and Europe is needed in response to Russian escalation,” he said.Ukraine’s state-run railway company Ukrzaliznytsia, or UZ, has maintained strict safety protocols for more than a year amid constant Russian drone and missile strikes. People remained on the platform, waiting for a train to the nearby city of Zaporizhzhya, when the attack happened, the company said in a statement.Russian strikes have damaged 533 locomotives, according to the railway company’s website data. The attacks on UZ electricity substations and railway stations are taking place daily, it said.In one of the most deadly single strikes in April 2022 – shortly after the Kremlin launched its invasion – Russia hit the railway station in Kramatorsk, killing more than 60 people who were waiting for a train to evacuate from the pre-front city. – Bloomberg