The Ministry of Defense of the aggressor state of Russia confirmed that its army launched rocket attacks on the Chaplino railway station in the Dnipropetrovsk region on August 24. The corresponding message was published in the Telegram channel of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

“As a result of a direct hit by an Iskander missile on a military echelon at the Chaplino railway station in the Dnipropetrovsk region, more than 200 servicemen of the reserve of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and 10 units of military equipment were destroyed on their way to the combat zone in Donbas,” the report says..

Meanwhile, according to the Office of the President of Ukraine, as a result of the strike, 25 people who were near the station died, including two children:

one boy died under the rubble of a destroyed house, the second burned out in a car. At least 31 people are also known to have been injured..

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On the Independence Day of Ukraine, Russia raised its aircraft more than 200 times, which is why air raid warnings were often sounded in the cities (in Kyiv - seven times). On this day, the Russian Federation launched eight missile strikes on Ukraine, in general, 58 settlements fell under shelling.