One dead, four wounded in Russia strike on Kherson train station
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Kherson has come under regular bombardment since Russian troops were forced to withdraw in 2022 to the other side of the Dnipro River that runs alongside the Ukrainian city.
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KYIV – A Russian strike on a train station filled with civilians being evacuated from Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson has killed at least one person and wounded four others, Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said on Dec 26.
“Kherson in the evening. Around 140 civilians waiting at the station for an evacuation train. That’s the moment that the enemy began a massive bombing of the city,” Mr Klymenko said in a post on Telegram.
One policeman was killed and two civilians and two policemen were wounded by shrapnel, he said.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that “a number of civilians were on the scene” when the strike hit, adding that rescue services were on the scene.
Ukrainian railway company Ukrzaliznytsya said on Telegram that a train and the station were damaged but that “the situation is under control and the railway is ready to continue functioning”.
The city of Kherson was occupied by Russian troops shortly after Moscow invaded Ukraine in late February 2022.
Under pressure from Ukrainian troops, the Russian forces eventually withdrew
The city has come under regular Russian bombardment
Earlier on Dec 26, the head of the Kherson military administration, Mr Roman Mrochko, said the city had come under sustained Russian strikes
