Missile Attack Victims At Kramatorsk Train Station Rise To 57 Dead And 109 Injured

The location that was hit by a missile attack at the Kramatorsk train station. (Wikimedia Commons/Mil.gov.ua/Операція об'єднаних /Joint Forces Operation)

JAKARTA - Ukrainian authorities put the number of people killed and injured in last Friday's Russian missile attack rising, with the UN secretary-general pressing for accountability for those responsible for the attack.

The death toll from a missile attack on a train station in Ukraine's Kramatorsk has risen to 57, Donetsk Region Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said on Sunday, citing Reuters, April 11.

He further explained that about 109 people were injured in the attack, which Ukraine blamed on Russia.

As previously reported, dozens of civilian refugees waiting to be evacuated at the Kramatorsk train station were killed when a Russian missile hit them, injuring about a hundred others.

Kyrylenko last Friday said two rockets hit the station in eastern Ukraine. The station was full of refugees who were waiting for the evacuation process.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said there were no Ukrainian troops at the station. "Russian troops (shoot) at ordinary train stations, at ordinary people, there are no soldiers there," he told the Finnish parliament in a video speech.

The location that was hit by a missile attack at the Kramatorsk train station. (Wikimedia Commons/armyinform.com.ua)

Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba condemned the attack, saying he would ensure war criminals are brought to justice to be held accountable for their actions.

Separately, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov earlier said inspection of the area damaged by the warhead and tail position of the Tochka-U missile in Kramatorsk confirmed that the missile was fired from an area controlled by the Ukrainian armed forces.

"An examination of the area damaged by the warhead and the position of the tail segment of the Tochka-U missile confirmed without a doubt that it was fired from an area southwest of Kramatorsk," he said, citing TASS.

"According to intelligence data, one of the units of the 19th missile brigade, armed with the Tochka-U missile system, was located in the residential area of Dobropolye in the Donetsk Region, 45 kilometers southwest of Kramatorsk at the time of the attack," it continued.

"The area is for now fully controlled by a group of Ukrainian troops in the Donbass," he continued, saying the Tochka-U tactical missiles were only used by Ukrainian forces.

Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is holding accountable those responsible for the missile attack on the train station in Kramatorsk, said UN Secretary-General's spokesman Stephane Dujarric.

"The attack on the Kramatorsk train station in eastern Ukraine, which killed and injured a number of civilians waiting to be evacuated, including many women, children, and the elderly, and other attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure is completely unacceptable," he stressed.

The spokesman pointed out that such incidents are grave violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law. "The perpetrators must be held accountable," he said.