At least five people were killed in a Russian drone strike on a civilian train in northeastern Ukraine, the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said, describing the attack as an “act of terrorism.”
Emergency workers were confronted with scenes of carnage at the site of the attack in the Kharkiv region on Tuesday, with victims’ body parts strewn among the burnt wreckage, making it impossible to immediately determine the number of casualties.
Nearly 300 people were travelling on the train, which is used by Ukrainians to visit soldiers on the front lines.
“In any country, a drone strike on a civilian train would be regarded in the same way – purely as an act of…