In eastern Ukraine, where Russian troops are intensifying the offensive, a railway station where many people were gathering to evacuate was attacked, and the local governor announced that 50 people had died.
A senior Pentagon official revealed an analysis that Russian troops used short-range ballistic missiles to attack.
In Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine, a railway station in Kramatorsk was attacked on the 8th, and the local governor announced that 50 people, including five children, had been killed and 98 were injured so far.
President Zelensky strongly accused the station of waiting for thousands of Ukrainians to evacuate.
A senior U.S. Department of Defense official revealed on the 8th that Russian troops used short-range ballistic missiles to carry out the attack.
The official pointed out that as Russian troops shift the focus of military operations to the east, they may be trying to prevent the Ukrainian side from deploying additional troops in the area by attacking traffic hubs. ..
The Russian Defense Ministry has denied involvement in this, but has announced that it has attacked other railway stations in Donetsk Oblast with missiles, destroying the weapons and equipment of Ukrainian troops brought to the area.
The Russian side, which is intensifying its offensive in the eastern part, is strengthening its control in Mariupol, which is a key point, on the 6th of this month, when pro-Russian armed groups unilaterally support a man from a local opposition party as the mayor.
Washington's think tank "War Institute" said in an analysis on the 7th that Russian troops are expected to take full control of Mariupol in the near future. It is gathering the fighting power. "
"The goal of the special military operation is a process of military and negotiation, which is being achieved and the military operation may end in a foreseeable future," said Peskov, a spokesman for the Presidential Administration of Russia.
President Putin seems to want to hurry to seize the eastern part of Ukraine in order to appeal to the public that he has "victory", but the Ukrainian army with Western support will also fight violently and the fighting will be prolonged. It is also seen.