The international human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW), together with the SITU research group, has published an investigation into the missile attack on the railway station in Kramatorsk on April 8, 2022.
HRW concluded that the attack was carried out by Russian troops with a ballistic missile equipped with a cluster warhead.
Source. This was reported by Radio Liberty.
In an interview with the publication, Ida Sawyer, head of the HRW Crisis and Conflict Department, spoke about the report on the missile attack on the Kramatorsk train station, which was released on the anniversary of the start of the large-scale Russian invasion. According to HRW, the attack killed 61 civilians and injured more than 100.
In its report, HRW claims to have found evidence that the Russian army had a Tochka U missile system located in the Kharkiv region at a fairly close distance from Kramatorsk.
According to the researchers, a Tochka U missile with a cluster warhead was used in the attack.
Earlier, the BBC conducted its own investigation, during which it gathered evidence that a 9N24 Tochka U missile with a cluster warhead was used to strike the railway station in Kramatorsk on April 8.
HRW believes that this strike was an indiscriminate Russian attack on civilians and a war crime. While railway stations can in principle be considered legitimate military targets, the Kramatorsk station was used to evacuate civilians.
The Ukrainian military was not based at the train station and was not present at the station during the attack.
The Russian authorities who shelled it must have known that there were a significant number of civilians there, HRW believes.
In the coming days, HRW is going to release reports on the destruction of an apartment building in Izium by a Russian airstrike a year ago, as well as on crimes committed during the long-running assault on Mariupol.
An air strike on a five-story building on Pershotravneva Street in Izium on March 9, 2022, killed at least 44 people, one of the bloodiest episodes of single civilian deaths in the Russian war to date.