The Russian defense ministry has denied claims coming from Kyiv that one of its missiles targeted a train station in a Ukrainian-held Donbas city.

Iran PressEurope: At least 30 civilians were reportedly killed and over 100 injured in the incident on Friday in Kramatorsk.

According to Ukrainian officials, the railway station was packed with women, children, and elderly evacuees in east Ukraine early on Friday.

Kyiv officials claimed the strike involved a Russian missile, either an Iskander or a Tochka U.

The Russian military stated it had no operations planned for the Kramatorsk area for Friday and called the accusations “a provocation that has absolutely no relation to reality.

A spokesperson added that images shared by witnesses show debris from a Tochka U missile, a weapon system that only Ukrainian forces use, RT reported.

On the other side, locals say that two powerful rockets struck the station in the city of Kramatorsk in what President Volodymyr Zelensky said was a deliberate attack on civilians.

A missile of a similar type hit the city of Donetsk on March 14; the spokesperson pointed out. The statement explained that the attack, which Moscow attributed to a Ukrainian missile unit, killed 17 people and injured 36 others.

Kramatorsk Mayor Oleksander Honcharenko said about 4,000 people had been at the station at the time of the attack.

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