NEW DELHI: US President Joe Biden held Russia responsible for a rocket strike on a train station in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk on Friday, calling the act a “horrific atrocity.” The missile strike on the eastern train station was also described by the US embassy in Ukraine as “one more atrocity” perpetrated by Russian troops in Ukraine.

The hit against the station, where individuals wanting to evacuate eastern Ukraine were awaiting evacuation, killed at least 50 people.

“The attack on a Ukrainian train station is yet another horrific atrocity committed by Russia, striking civilians who were trying to evacuate and reach safety,” Biden said on Twitter.

The US embassy in Ukraine tweeted: “The Russian missile attack on the Kramatorsk railway station, a hub for civilian evacuations, which left dozens of people killed and more than 100 injured, is one more atrocity committed by Russia in Ukraine. The world will hold (Russian President Vladimir) Putin to account.”

Authorities claimed a missile hit the station where thousands of people had congregated to flee Ukraine, killing at least 50 people, while workers recovered bodies from a mass grave in a town where Russian troops have been accused of war crimes.

Dead bodies were covered with tarps in photos from the station, as were fragments of a rocket with the words “for the children” painted on it in Russian. At the time of the hit, about 4,000 civilians were in and near the station, according to Ukraine’s prosecutor-office, general’s with the majority of them being women and children who had heeded instructions to leave the area before Russia launched a full-scale offensive in the country’s east.

Russia, on the other hand, claimed that it did not strike civilians and that its forces were not involved in the Kramatorsk offensive.

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