Ukraine: Death toll in Chaplino attack rises to 25

A Russian missile strike at the Chaplino railway station in the Dnipro Region has killed 25 people, announced Kyrylo Tymoshenko, Deputy Head of the Ukrainian President’s Office.

“Shelling of the residential area and the railway station has killed 25 people, of whom two are children,” Tymoshenko said.

According to the politician, an 11-year-old boy died under the rubble of a destroyed home and another 6-year-old child perished in a car fire near the railway station. As of now, 31 people are known to have been injured.

The missile strike on Chaplino was reported yesterday by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a speech to the UN Security Council.

According to Zelensky, the missile hit a passenger train at the Chaplino railway station, resulting in four carriages catching fire.