38 people died on the spot, 12 died at the hospital.

Among the dead - five children.

It is reported that 98 people were taken to the hospital, including 16 children.

According to the authorities, not all victims have sought medical help yet.

In one of the videos published by the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine

, the rocket shows the inscription "For Children".

Zelensky: They are cynically destroying the civilian population

Local volunteers claim that more than a thousand people were at the station during the shelling, as an evacuation was carried out.

“Lacking the strength and courage to stand up to us on the battlefield, they are cynically destroying the civilian population.

It is an evil that has no boundaries.

If it is not punished, it will never stop, ”Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote

After the rocket attack in Kramatorsk

Remains of a rocket

According to the fact of shelling and death of civilians, a criminal case was instituted under Part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (violation of the laws and customs of war).

Victims of the missile attack in Kramatorsk

Russia denies that it fired a missile

Russia, meanwhile, said the Kramatorsk train station was allegedly shelled by Ukraine.

Russia's Defense Ministry said that "no fire tasks on April 8 in Kramatorsk, the Russian armed forces did not perform."

Russia's defense ministry also said that Point B tactical missiles were allegedly "used only by the Ukrainian army."

According to a number of Ukrainian telegram channels, immediately after reports of rocket launches in the direction of Kramatorsk, Russian media began to report on the destruction of Ukrainian "militants", and when photos of those killed and injured at the station began to spread on the Internet, they began to delete the first messages. that it is "Ukraine fired on the station."

Witness to the shelling: "There was an unimaginable scream - children were screaming, their mothers were screaming"

One of the locals from Kramatorsk told the Ukrainian TV channel "Dom" that at the time of the crash she was in the middle of the station.

“There were a lot of people ... Everyone was standing where they were.

And suddenly someone shouted: "Fall", and everyone began to push to the floor.

I sat down and heard explosions and screams unimaginable - the children were screaming, their mothers were screaming ... There was a lot with the children.

There was such a cry ... and I thought that if the dome flew off now, it would kill everyone.

But there was no second explosion, ”the woman said.

According to her, cars started to catch fire from the explosion:

“A murdered man was lying near the entrance to the station.

Several wounded were taken out by the military, not an ambulance.

And where the rails - I have not seen.

Everyone ran away - rescuers, soldiers ... There, they say, a lot of people, their heads are lying separately, "- added the witness.

According to the latest information, 39 people died, including 4 children.

This is not the first attack on railway facilities

The day before, on April 7, the shelling damaged a railway and blocked three trains, which evacuated nearly 4,000 civilians.

Ukrainian authorities have called on residents of Donetsk and Luhansk regions to evacuate immediately.

According to the General Staff of Ukraine and Western intelligence, Russia is withdrawing its troops to attack uncontrolled areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

During a visit to NATO, Foreign Minister

said the battle could reach the scale of World War II with tanks, aircraft and missile systems.