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Russian drone attack on Ukrainian train station kills at least 14, officials say
At least 14 people have been killed after a Russian jet-powered drone hit a crowded platform at the main railway station in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, local officials have said.
Dnipropetrovsk regional head Oleksandr Hanzha said at least 14 others were wounded in the attack, including an 11-year-old boy.
Ukraine's state railway operator, Ukrzaliznytsia, said a passenger train headed for the southern city of Zaporizhzhia was at one of the platforms in Dnipro when the drone hit.
Russia's military has not publicly commented. It has repeatedly hit Ukraine's large railway network, but Moscow denies deliberately targeting civilians.
In Dnipro, an elevated threat level was announced ahead of Thursday's strike, according to Ukrzaliznytsia head Oleksandr Pertsovsky. He said many people were on the platform when the Russian drone struck.
"But unfortunately there were still a large number of people on the platform," he said.
Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov said the incident was a tragedy, adding that a drone hit a civilian electric train.
Pictures from the Ukrainian rescue services show a large hole ripped in a platform strewn with blurred-out bodies, near a blast-damaged train with smashed windows.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said "the Russians used a drone to attack a platform where a regular commuter train and a regular passenger train were standing."
He called for further US, European and G7 sanctions on Russia following the incident and repeated his criticism of a controversial deal struck earlier this month between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, which eased some sanctions on Russia, allowing the US to import Russian diesel.