Trains travelling with flowers on empty seats in memory of civilians killed in Kramatorsk
Saturday, 9 April 2022, 19:44
On Saturday, 9 April, Ukrzaliznytsia [Ukrainian Railways] left some of the seats on several of its trains empty in memory of those killed in the Kramatorsk attack.
Source: Ukrzaliznytsia on Telegram
Details: Seat №52 on several trains running across Ukraine were left empty on Saturday. Flowers were placed on these seats in memory of the people murdered while waiting to board trains in the Russian attack on the Kramatorsk train station on 8 April.
According to Ukrzaliznytsia: "Seat №52 on trains from Kyiv to Chernivtsi, Truskavets, and Rahiv, from Odesa to Chernivtsi, from Chernivtsi to Odesa, and from Lviv to Zaporizhzhia remained empty, carrying across the country our sorrow for the innocent victims of Russian aggression, for the lives of our citizens ripped from them so brutally and deliberately.
We sincerely sympathise with the families of the victims and promise to continue doing everything possible and impossible to continue saving the lives of our citizens."
Background:
- On 8 April Russian occupying troops launched cluster missiles from the Tochka-U missile complex, which was stationed on the territory of the Luhansk region, at the Kramatorsk train station, where nearly 4,000 people were awaiting evacuation.
- The number of civilians killed in the Russian attack has reached 52; 109 are wounded.
