Ukraine says at least 39 people are dead and dozens wounded after rockets hit a train station in the city of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine in the afternoon of Friday.
Thousands of people were at the station at the time as they try to flee Russian attacks, according to the Donetsk regional governor
Russia denies involvement in the strike, with a Kremlin spokesman saying it had no scheduled missions in the area
Russia is believed to be stepping up its offensive in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine as it withdraws from the north
Cities in Donbas have come under heavy Russian attack overnight, with residents sheltering in basements and Severodonetsk hit by rocket fire
UK PM Boris Johnson is meeting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for talks and will give a joint news conference later.
European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen has gone to Kyiv for talks with President Zelensky
Residents in Yahidne, near Chernihiv, tell the BBC Russian troops held 130 people in a basement for four weeks.
Thousands of people – most of them women and children and the elderly – were at the railway station in Kramatorsk when it was hit by rockets, the city’s mayor Oleksander Honcharenko has said.
The station, which lies in eastern Ukraine, was being used to evacuate civilians from the Donbas region in the east.
These were the scenes at Kramatorsk train station earlier in the week as people waited for trains. Russia is believed to be stepping up its offensive in Donbas as it withdraws from the north. BBC
