On Wednesday, August 24, Russia struck Chapliné station in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Four carriages caught fire and the cars and surrounding buildings were badly damaged. Rescue and search operations ended today in the village of Tchapliné.
In the photos posted by the Ukrainian army, we see cars flattened by the force of the explosion. Next to the tracks, we also have a car that was completely burned.
In the evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said 22 people had been killed as the country celebrated 31 years of independence. The death toll from the Russian bombing of the Chapliné railway station rose to 25 dead and 31 wounded. It was the Ukrainian train operator who announced it on his Telegram account and he points out that two children and three railway employees were killed in this attack.
Russia, for its part, claimed to have killed the day before “ more than 200 Ukrainian servicemen in this strike. An Iskander missile directly hit a military train at the Chapline railway station in the Dnipropetrovsk region, killing more than 200 servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reserve as well as equipment, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. According to the Russian ministry, this train was “ on the way to the combat zones in eastern Ukraine, where clashes are taking place between troops from kyiv and those from Moscow.
The European Union condemns this strike
Other strikes hit Ukraine. Also in the Dnepropetrovsk region, a missile reportedly destroyed a house and killed an 11-year-old boy. The capital was also affected. The northern suburbs of Kyiv came under rocket fire, but it reportedly did no major damage. The city of origin of Volodymyr Zelensky was also targeted by the Kremlin without visibly causing any casualties.
According to local media, nine Ukrainian regions were bombed on Wednesday, and a total of 189 warning sirens sounded across the country, a record since the start of the war on February 24.
The Ukrainian president had warned the population that Russia could strike the country when it celebrated 31 years of independence. A curfew has been put in place to try to protect themselves from the bombardments which have affected the whole country, even the regions usually calmer.
The European Union condemned this strike, through the voice of its head of diplomacy. Josep Borrell estimated that those responsible for the Russian bombardments which hit the railway station and homes in Chapliné, in central Ukraine, on Wednesday, “ will have to give accounts “.