At Least 200 Ukrainian Troops Killed in Russia’s Iskander Missile Attack: Report
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An Iskander Russian missile reportedly killed at least 200 Ukrainian soldiers when it struck a train station in the Dnepropetrovsk region of eastern Ukraine, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) on Thursday.
Russian MoD spokesman Igor Konashenkov told reporters that “as a result of a direct strike by an Iskander missile on a military echelon at the Chaplino railway station in the Dnepropetrovsk region, more than 200 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and 10 units of military equipment were destroyed as they were on their way to the combat zone in Donbass,” Sputnik reported.
He added that a separate "high-precision strike by the Russian Aerospace Forces near the Novy Bug settlement in the Nikolayev region destroyed a command post of the Kakhovka grouping of Ukrainian troops”. As a result, 64 Ukrainian soldiers were killed, according to Konashenkov.
The developments come after Reuters cited Kiev officials as arguing that 25 civilians were purportedly killed in a Russian missile strike on a railway station in eastern Ukraine.
Russia has been conducting what it calls a "special operation" in Ukraine since February 24.
Iskander is a mobile ballistic missile system designed to destroy a variety of ground targets at a range of up to 500km (more than 300 miles).
