Ukraine war: What do we know about the Kramatorsk train station attack?
The rocket attack that struck a railway station at Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine killed at least "39 people including four children" and wounded "over 100", according to Ukrainian authorities.
There was swift condemnation from the Kyiv government and European politicians, none of whom were in any doubt as to who was to blame as they condemned Russia for targeting civilians.
The station has been heavily used by evacuees, and officials say thousands of people were there at the time of the attack.
Late on Friday morning, Ukraine's state railway company said two rockets struck the station through which many Ukrainians had passed in recent days, fleeing the conflict zone in the Donbas region.
"Two rockets hit Kramatorsk railway station," Ukrainian Railways said in a statement, adding that according to "operational data... more than 30 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded".
Ukraine's security services said later that at least 39 had died, including four children.
The head of Ukraine's railways, Olexander Kamyshin, said on the messaging app Telegram that it was a "deliberate strike".
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denounced an "evil that knows no bounds" unleashed by Russia.
"Without the strength and the courage to face us on the battlefield, they (the Russians) are cynically destroying the civilian population. It is an evil that knows no bounds. And if it is not punished, it will never stop,” Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram, denouncing the “inhumane” methods of the Russian forces.
Ukraine's foreign minister was if anything even more forthright. "Russians knew that the train station in Kramatorsk was full of civilians waiting to be evacuated," Dmytro Kuleba tweeted.
"Yet they stroke it with a ballistic missile, killing
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