Civilians killed in rocket strike on train station in Kramatorsk, Ukraine

Video footage shows a train station in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, following a strike from Russian missiles.

The train station in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, was being used to evacuate civilian women and children from the war zone and take them to safer parts of the country when the rocket hit.

At least 39 people were killed and 80 wounded in the attack, in a region which until this week had been relatively removed from the fighting.

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that there were no soldiers there and that it was an ordinary train station for ordinary people.

A witness said: “As it happened, I immediately ran out of the house to help people.

“I saw and heard the shelling of burning cars and the tail from the Russian missile.

“It was difficult to get to the station itself because of the burning cars parked nearby – people were scared and ran in different directions.

“At the station there were exclusively civilian - not military - women and children who were trying to get out of the city because of the impending danger from the Russian army."

The attack came on the 44th day of the invasion, as the war enters its seventh week.