At least 15 people were killed and dozens were wounded in a Russian rocket strike on a Ukrainian railway station on Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, as his nation marked the anniversary of its independence from Moscow-dominated Soviet rule.
Zelenskyy had on Tuesday warned of the risk of “repugnant Russian provocations” on Ukraine’s independence day, marked six months exactly since Russian forces first invaded Ukraine, touching off Europe’s most devastating conflict since the Second World War.
In a video address to the United Nations Security Council, Zelenskyy said the rockets had hit a train in the town of Chaplyne, some 145 kilometres west of
