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Dozens of people have been killed or wounded after rockets hit a railway station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk, Ukrainian officials say.

Thousands of people have used Kramatorsk station in recent days to escape the east, as Russia re-focuses its military campaign on that part of the country.

Russia has denied carrying out a targeted strike but Ukraine's President Zelensky has dismissed the denials saying: "This is an evil that has no limits."

Speaking on Newshour, the city's mayor, Oleksander Honcharenko, said 40 people had now died, including 10 children after a "huge rocket" hit the city's train station.

"It happened at 10:30am. At that time we had about 4,000 people on the railway station, waiting for the first train," he said.

He added that he was certain it was a Russian rocket, and that there were no Ukrainian military targets around the station where the rocket hit.

It remains unclear whether the train station was the intended target of the missile, or who is responsible for the attack.

Photo shows: A handout picture made available by the Donetsk Regional State Administration shows emergency services working at the scene after a missile strike hit the railway station in Kramatorsk, Donbass region, eastern Ukraine, 08 April 2022. Credit: Donetsk Regional State Administration

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