Kyiv: On Aug 25, Russia’s Defence Ministry said that its forces had struck a railway station in eastern Ukraine. The ministry said an Iskander missile had hit a military train at the station of Chaplyne that had been set to deliver arms to Ukrainian forces on the frontline in the eastern Donbas region. Kyiv alleged that the strike hit a residential area and killed 25 civilians as the nation marked its Independence Day.

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