Dozens killed in missile strike on Ukraine railway station crowded with evacuees

Ukrainian servicemen stand next to a fragment of a Tochka-U missile with a writing in Russian “For children” , on a grass after Russian shelling at the railway station in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Friday, April 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)

A missile has hit a railway station in eastern Ukraine where thousands of people were trying to flee, killing 50 people, Ukrainian authorities said.

Photos from the scene in Kramatorsk showed bodies covered with tarpaulins on the ground and the remnants of a rocket with the words “For the children” painted on it in Russian.