Russia-Ukraine war live updates: Scores feared dead in Kramatorsk ...

Chantal Da Silva and Anastasiia ParafeniukThe death toll in Friday's attack on a railway station in Kramatorsk has risen to 50 people, including five children, Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk regional military administration, said."We have such a large number of victims at this hour as a result of the attack of the Russian occupation forces," Kyrylenko said in a Telegram post Friday. Alexander SmithThe United States Embassy in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, has tweeted that the rocket attack on Kramatorsk railway station "is one more atrocity committed by Russia" and vowed that "the world will hold Putin to account."NBC NewsChantal Da SilvaAs Ukrainian officials reported that children were among the 39 people killed and the dozens injured in an attack on a railway station in Kramatorsk, UNICEF said "we fear the worst" on the death toll. Earlier, Ukrainian national police had confirmed that children were among the dead, but did not say how many children had died.Condemning the attack, Sahin noted that the Kramatorsk station "has been the main route out for thousands of families evacuating from Donetsk Oblast, which has seen some of the war’s worst destruction, to relatively safer areas in Ukraine."Sahin said a UNICEF team had been delivering life-saving supplies just over half a mile away from the railway station when the attack took place.Daniel ArkinRussia's Ministry of Defense on Friday denied striking a railway station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk — an attack that Ukraine says killed at least 39 people.The ministry of defense claimed that Kyiv's statements about the attack are a "provocation and are absolutely untrue."Russia has repeatedly denied targeting civilians in its military offensive in Ukraine. Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba accused Russia on Friday of a "deliberate slaughter" of civilians in the attack."Russians knew that the train station in Kramatorsk was full of civilians waiting to be evacuated," he said in a tweet. He also vowed to bring "each war criminal to justice."Chantal Da SilvaThe Kremlin has denied launching any "combat missions" in Kramatorsk after Ukrainian officials reported that least 39 people had been killed and dozens in strikes on a railway station in the city.In a briefing on Friday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said said "there were no combat missions in Kramatorsk and they were not planned." He added that Russian forces did not have the "type of missiles" he said Ukrainian officials said were used. NBC NewsA man carries an injured dog after a rocket attack in Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine on Friday.Mithil AggarwalThe British government has unveiled fresh sanctions against the daughters of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov after a similar decision in the United States.Putin’s daughters, Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova and Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova, and Lavrov’s daughter, Yekaterina Sergeyevna, will now be subject to asset freezes and travel bans, the U.K. said in a statement on Friday.Currently over 60% of Russia’s foreign reserve — almost $350 billion — has been frozen as a result of sanctions by the U.K. and its allies, it said. Russia has consistently denied targeting civilians in its attacks on Ukraine, including in Bucha.NBC NewsThe remains of a rocket appearing to be adorned with the words "for our children" lies on the ground outside the railway station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk, Ukraine on Friday.Rhoda Kwan and Anastasiia ParafeniukUkrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy has slammed Russian forces for "destroying the civilian population" after rocket strikes hit a railway station in the city of Kramatorsk, where thousands of people were waiting to be evacuated, according to officials."Lacking the strength and courage to stand up to us on the battlefield, they are cynically destroying the civilian population. NBC NewsUkrainian servicemen carry a victim to be placed next to other casualties after a bombing at a railway station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk on Friday.Rhoda Kwan, Anastasiia Parafeniuk and ReutersMore than 30 people have been killed after two Russian rockets hit a railway station in Kramatorsk, a city in the Donetsk region, as thousands of Ukrainians tried to flee the region on Friday, Ukraine's state railway company has said.Ukrainian Railways said on its Telegram channel that more than 100 people were also wounded in the strikes. In a statement posted on his official Telegram channel, Donetsk Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko accused Russian forces of intentionally hitting the station, saying they "knew well where they were aiming and what they wanted: they wanted to take as many peaceful people as possible hostage."“This is a deliberate blow to the passenger infrastructure of the railway and the residents of Kramatorsk,” the head of Ukrainian Railways, Alexander Kamyshin, wrote in the company's Telegram channel.Chantal Da Silva and Anastasiia ParafeniukPeace talks between Russia and Ukraine have been ongoing, but the mood of the negotiations has shifted since the atrocities Russian forces are alleged to have committed in Bucha came to light, Ukrainian negotiator Mykhailo Podolyak has said.