On a visit to Kyiv on Friday the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the EU foreign policy head Josep Borrell strongly condemned the Russian army’s „horrible” and „indiscriminate” attack on civilians at the Kramatorsk train station. The European dignitaries have also announced a new 500 million Euro military aid for Ukraine. At the same time, they announced the return of the EU mission to Kyiv. The European delegation also included the Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger. Two Russian missiles hit a train station in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, killing at least 50 people among whom children, and injuring about 100. The station, which housed thousands, was used to evacuate areas bombed by the Russian forces. At the same time, President Volodymyr Zelensky says that the destruction of Borodianka (a city northwest of Kyiv and recently taken back by Ukrainians) is „much more terrible” than that in Bucha, where massacres were perpetrated. Moscow denies that its forces have killed civilians. Also on Friday, the EU approved a fifth package of sanctions against Moscow, which provides for a coal embargo and the closure of European ports for Russian ships. This package further expands the blacklist, affecting the incomes of hundreds of oligarchs and political leaders in Russia, Belarus and the pro-Russian separatist areas of Luhansk and Donetsk in Ukraine.
Eugen Cojocariu, Radio România Internațional
