[ti:Ukraine Says Missile Strike Kills 50 People at Train Station] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:00.04]A missile hit a train station Friday where thousands of people [00:05.20]had gathered to flee Russian attacks in eastern Ukraine, [00:10.28]killing at least 50 people, Ukrainian officials said. [00:15.52]Dozens more were injured. [00:18.88]Images from the scene showed covered bodies and people's belongings [00:24.40]on the ground around the station, in the city of Kramatorsk. [00:30.20]A burned rocket was also found on the ground, [00:34.20]with the words "for the children" painted on it in Russian. [00:39.84]About 4,000 civilians were in and around the station, [00:45.32]the office of Ukraine's prosecutor-general said. [00:49.56]It added that most of the victims were women and children [00:54.12]trying to leave the area. [00:57.32]They had been warned that Russian forces were planning to launch [01:01.80]a major new offensive in the country's east, Ukrainian officials said. [01:08.84]Russia's Defense Ministry denied attacking the station, [01:12.88]which sits inside Ukraine's contested Donbas area. [01:18.36]President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other Ukrainian leaders [01:23.20]accused Russia's military of targeting a place [01:27.32]where only civilians were gathered. [01:30.60]"The inhuman Russians are not changing their methods," [01:34.48]Zelenskyy said on social media. [01:37.44]"Without the strength or courage to stand up to us on the battlefield, [01:43.08]they are cynically destroying the civilian population," he added. [01:48.72]"This is an evil without limits. And if it is not punished, [01:53.96]then it will never stop," he said. [01:57.44]Britain's Defense Minister Ben Wallace denounced the train station attack, [02:02.64]saying "the striking of civilians and critical infrastructure is a war crime." [02:10.28]"The people just wanted to get away for evacuation," [02:15.24]Ukraine's Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova said. [02:21.16]She spoke while visiting Bucha, a town north of Kyiv, Ukraine's capital. [02:27.96]Ukrainians discovered many bodies on the streets [02:31.96]and in mass graves in Bucha after Russian troops withdrew. [02:38.44]Venediktova watched as workers pulled bodies from a mass grave near a church. [02:45.80]Black body bags were placed next to each other in the mud. [02:50.16]She said that none of the dead were Russians. [02:54.04]Most of the victims had been shot. [02:57.48]The prosecutor general's office is investigating the deaths as possible war crimes. [03:04.96]Russia has failed to take Ukraine's capital [03:08.04]and has moved its troops away from northern Ukraine. [03:12.56]It has recently been sending troops into Donbas, [03:17.00]a mostly Russian-speaking, industrial area in eastern Ukraine. [03:23.04]Moscow-backed rebels have been fighting Ukrainian forces [03:27.32]for eight years and control some areas. [03:31.68]The train station attacked is in an area under Ukrainian government control. [03:39.00]This week, Ukrainian officials warned citizens in the area [03:43.76]to leave as soon as possible for safer parts of the country. [03:49.52]They said Russia had agreed to establish evacuation paths in the east. [03:56.04]One expert said only Russia would have a reason to attack [04:00.44]civilian railway infrastructure in the Donbas, [04:04.48]and that Ukraine would not kill its own civilians on purpose in "a war of survival." [04:13.16]"The Ukrainian military is desperately [04:16.00]trying to reinforce units in the area," said Justin Bronk. [04:21.00]He is a research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London. [04:27.48]Bronk added that the rail station was important [04:31.64]for the movement of troops and people. [04:35.44]In his nightly television speech, Zelenskyy said [04:39.24]officials had already discovered horrors worse than those found in Bucha [04:45.28]in Borodyanka, a neighborhood northwest of Kyiv. [04:51.36]"There, on every street, is what the world saw in Bucha [04:55.60]and other towns in the Kyiv region....The same cruelty. [05:01.08]The same terrible crimes," Zelenskyy said. [05:06.12]NATO nations agreed to increase arms supplies [05:10.52]when Ukraine's foreign minister appealed for more weapons [05:14.56]after reports that Russian forces had carried out atrocities. [05:21.00]The United Nations estimates that more than 4.3 million people [05:26.72]have fled Ukraine since the war began [05:29.84]and more than 12 million people are trapped in areas under attack. [05:36.96]I'm Caty Weaver. 更多听力请访问51VOA.COM