At least 15 deaths in the Russian attack on the independence day of Ukraine

At least 15 people were killed in a Russian rocket attack on a train station in Ukraine and 50 injured when the country committed the anniversary of its independence from the Soviet rule.

Wolodymyr Selenskyj, the Ukrainian President, confirmed the attack in which rockets met a passenger train after warning that Russia could plan something "particularly cruel" for independence.

The strikes took place in Chaplyne, a city with around 3,500 inhabitants in the Dnipropetrovsk region, about 90 miles west of Donetsk.

reports reported after the attack, four wagons.

In a video address to the United Nations Security Council, Mr. Zelensky said: “Four passenger cars are now on fire. So far, at least 15 people have been killed and about 50 people were injured.

"The rescuers work, but unfortunately the number of fatalities could increase. This is our daily life."

The President's office also said that an 11-year-old child was killed by rocket fire in another part of the region.

Ukraine had prepared for particularly severe attacks, which summarized the national holiday to remember their declaration of independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.

It also marked the six -month point since Vladimir Putin's troops started their large -scale invasion on February 24th.

authorities in Kyiv had banned large meetings for fear of rocket attacks. The inhabitants of the capital, which has largely avoided Russian attacks in the past few months, woke up with air strikes on Wednesday, but no immediate strikes followed.

in the east, west and in the middle of Ukraine, Russian bombing was reported.

It comes when the Russian police arrested one of the last opposition leaders yesterday who was not behind bars and accused him of discredit the army.

Yevgeny Roizman, a top -class critic of the invasion of the Kremlin in Ukraine, threatens a prison sentence of up to five years due to laws to suppress different opinions.

In a video in which Mr. Roizman is removed by the armed police, a reporter asks why he was arrested.

"For one sentence," replies Mr. Roizman. "The invasion of Ukraine."