At least 30 injured in the Russian strike at the train station, Zelensky says

At least 30 people have been injured after a Russian unmanned aircraft strike at a railway station in the northeast of Ukraine, said Ukrainian President Volodymy Zelensky.

In an X publication, he said that preliminary reports indicated that train staff and passengers were at the strike in the city of Shostka, in the Sumy region.

Emergency services are on the scene and have begun to help people, he said, added that information about injured was still being established.

He also published a video that shows a damaged train carriage.

“The Russians could not have been wise that they were pointing to civilians. This is terrorism, that the world has no right to ignore,” Zelensky wrote in X.

“Every day, Russia takes the lives of people. And only force can make them stop.”

According to Regional Governor Oleh Hryhorov and the Ukrainian rail body, there were two attacks that hit two trains.

The second blow hit at a time when the evacuations of the area were already underway, said a statement from the railway body.

It represented a vile “attack” destined to stop communication with our first -line communities, “the statement continued. Shostka is located in the northeast of Ukraine, about 50 km from the Russian border.

Three children, aged 8, 11 and 14, were among the injured, said Hryhorov.

Zelensky in his publication also requested “action” of the West, saying: “We have heard resolved statements of Europe and America, and it is time to make them reality.”

Russia has intensified its aerial assaults in Ukraine in recent weeks, regularly launching hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles.

Ukraine has been urging his western allies for a long time to provide sufficient advanced air defense armament to be able to deal with almost daily Russian attacks.

Last Sunday, A mass strike of 12 hours that involves hundreds of drones and almost 50 missiles He left four people dead in Kyiv and at least 70 wounds.

The Deputy Minister of Ukraine, Ivan Havryliuk, has also argued that the strengthening of the country’s air defense systems represented a broader security investment in Europe, Referring to the activity of recent drones in European airspace.

The president of the United States, Donald Trump and Europe, have led the efforts to end the war, but the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has repeatedly rejected the calls to a high fire.

kyiv and his allies accuse the Russian president of stagnant tactics while his troops continue to make slow progress on the battlefield, despite the very high combat casualty report.

The president of the United States has seemed more and more frustrated with the lack of Kremlin eagerness to begin peace conversations.

And, although he has given up imposing more sanctions on Russia, Trump has changed his position in the war, saying that he thought Ukraine could recover the land he had lost to Moscow.

Earlier this year, the Trump administration approved a new mechanism that sees European allies buy weapons made by the United States for Ukraine.

The United States is also considering a application for Ukraine For long -range missiles That could affect the main Russian cities away from the front line.