At least one person was killed and four others injured on Tuesday in a Russian bomb attack on a train station in Kherson, southern Ukraine, where civilians were preparing to evacuate, the interior minister said.
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“Kherson, in the evening. Around 140 civilians are waiting at the train station for the evacuation train to depart. “Then the enemy began a massive bombardment of the city,” Igor Klymenko said in Telegram.
One police officer was killed and two civilians and two police officers were injured by shrapnel, he said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that “there were many civilians there” at the time of the attack. “All (emergency) services are now on site,” he added.
Ukrainian Railways Ukrzaliznytsia reported on Telegram that the station and the train were damaged.
This video shows the aftermath of the Russian attack on a train station full of people in Kherson late on December 26, which killed at least one person and injured four others.
📽️: Oleksandr Prokudin / Telegram pic.twitter.com/0fk2hZHTdA
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) December 26, 2023
“The situation is under control and the railway is ready to continue operations,” she assured.
The city of Kherson had been occupied by the Russian army for several months in 2022 before retreating across the Dnieper, with each side now controlling one bank.
Since then, the city has been a regular target of deadly Russian bombings.
The head of Kherson's military administration, Roman Mrochko, had already reported on Tuesday about several Russian bomb attacks on the city in the past 24 hours, in which, according to him, four people were injured, including one seriously.