Associated Press journalist, who visited the Chaplino railway station in the Dnipropetrovsk region, said he did not see the Ukrainian military among the dead.
It was previously reported that in the evening of August 24, the Russian military attacked Chaplino. As a result of the shelling, 25 people were killed. The next day, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that more than 200 military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and 10 units of military equipment were destroyed at the station.
AP writes that this attack has signs of a war crime. According to the professor of the law faculty of the University of Wunderbilt Michael Newton, even a blow to a small group of the military may be considered a war crime, if the victims as a result became a large number of civilians.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said that the shelling of Chaplin was carried out using the Iskander. Former British intelligence officer Frank Ledwidge notes that these are expensive rockets with high -precision guidance, which are not used for trivial tasks. That is why he believes that the shelling of Chaplino is a deliberate blow to the civilian object in order to cause victims among the civilians and violate the railway movement for civilians.
According to the deputy head of the office of the President of Ukraine Kirill Tymoshenko, two children among the dead in Chaplino. One of them is an 11 -year -old boy, he died under the rubble of the house. Another 6 -year -old child is during a fire in a car near the station. Also 31 people were injured.