Russia launches strikes on Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk: 22 killed PHOTO

President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky at a meeting of the UN Security Council on Aug. 24, announced a strike by Russian troops on a railway station in the Dnipropetrovsk region, and at least 15 people were killed.

“Just when I was going to make this appeal, I received information that a Russian missile attack on the Dnepropetrovsk region, on the railway station, right on the cars at the Chaplino station – four-passenger cars are now on fire. Currently, at least 15 people are killed and about 50 injured, and rescuers are working. But, unfortunately, the number of dead may still increase,” Zelensky stressed, according to The Odessa Journal.

He added that “this is how Russia prepared for this meeting of the UN Security Council.”

Russian forces fired 5 rockets at Chaplino: an 11-year-old boy died under the rubble of a crashed house.

According to Kirill Timoshenko, deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential office, a rocket destroyed a private house and a woman and two children were trapped under the rubbles.

According to the official, the first attack damaged the outbuildings of the railway, the subsequent ones hit the railway station. The impact caused a fire in 5 passenger cars. As a result, 22 people died, and 22 were injured.

“Chaplino is our pain today. As of this minute, there are 22 dead, five of them were burned in the car, a teenager died, he was 11 years old, a Russian rocket destroyed his house,” he said on the same day.

The President added that search and rescue operations at the railway station would continue.