Ukraine war: Zelenskyy hits out at Russia after 22 killed in strike on Chaplyne train station
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has vowed to hold Russia responsible after a rocket attack on a train station on Ukraine's independence day killed more than 20 people and wounded dozens.
"Chaplyne is our pain today," he said in his nightly video address to the nation, referring to the town 120 kilometres southeast of Dnipro in central Ukraine where Wednesday's strike happened.
Officials in Kyiv say a passenger train was set on fire in the attack.
"As of this moment, there are 22 dead, five of them burned in the car, an 11-year-old teenager died, a Russian missile destroyed his house," Zelenskyy said, adding that search and rescue operations at the railway station would continue.
"We will definitely make the occupiers bear responsibility for everything they have done. And we will certainly drive the invaders out of our land. Not a single stain of this evil will remain in our free Ukraine. We will make our way to victory. It will happen!"
Zelenskyy aide Kyrylo Tymoshenko later said Russian forces had shelled Chaplyne twice.
A boy was killed in the first attack when a missile hit his house, and 21 people died later when rockets hit the railway station and set fire to five train carriages, he said in a statement.
The Russian defence ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Russia denies targeting civilians.
Six explosions were reported during a rocket attack on the Vyshgorod region directly north of Kyiv, a regional official said on Thursday morning.
There were no casualties, fires or destruction, Olexiy Kuleba wrote on the Telegram channel. Some of the explosions heard by residents, he said, were "the 'work' of our air defences".
Otherwise, Russia's military avoided Kyiv on the Ukrainian holiday and targeted
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