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Zelenskyy: At least 15 killed by Russian shelling of Chaplyne

Dozens are injured.

Zelenskyy: At least 15 killed by Russian shelling of Chaplyne
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Russian troops shelled the Chaplyne railway station in Dnipropetrovsk Region on the evening of 24 August, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said in a speech to the UN Security Council.

"Just now, on my way to make this appeal, I received information that there was a Russian missile strike on Dnipropetrovsk Region, on a railway station, right on the cars at the Chaplyne station, four passenger cars are on fire," the Ukrainian president said.

Zelenskyy added that as of now at least 15 people have been killed and about 50 injured.

The president stressed that rescuers were now working at the site, but the death toll might increase.

Today the Russians hit a private house in Dnipropetrovsk Region, which left a woman and two children under the rubble. One boy born in 2011 was killed. The woman and another boy born in 2009 were saved.

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