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Rockets hit Kramatorsk station

• Dozens of people have been killed and wounded after rockets hit a railway station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk, Ukrainian officials say
• The governor of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, says the station was hit by cluster munitions, Reuters reports
• 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
• Ukraine's President Zelensky has dismissed Russian denials saying: "This is an evil that has no limits"

International diplomacy

• President Zelensky is to hold talks with European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen
• Russian President Vladimir Putin's daughters have been sanctioned by the UK
• UK PM Boris Johnson is meeting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for talks and will give a joint news conference shortly
• UK home secretary apologises for delays in issuing Ukrainian refugee visas

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The death toll in Kramatorsk has now risen to 40, according to the city's mayor.

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

"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 exactly is responsible for the attack.

Montenegro has imposed unspecified sanctions on Russia, according to an announcement by the country's deputy prime minister.

Writing on Twitter on Friday, Dritan Abazovic said: "[The Montenegrin government] has adopted restrictive measures in response to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.

"Thankful to all the ministers for their cooperation."

Montenegro is a Nato member and a candidate for EU membership, but had previously appeared reluctant to introduce sanctions.

The country attracts a significant amount of investment and tourism from Russia, and many wealthy Russians also have property or keep yachts there.

Montenegro had earlier closed its airspace to Russian planes, and on Thursday expelled four Russian diplomats for violations of diplomatic norms.

On Monday, the US ambassador to the country called on its government to implement all the sanctions imposed by the EU.

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UK officials have condemned the strike that hit the packed Kramatorsk train station killing dozens, according to Ukrainian officials.

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said the striking of civilians and critical infrastructure "is a war crime" and said precision missiles were aimed at people trying to seek humanitarian shelter.

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said she was "appalled" by the attack and reiterated that the "targeting of civilians is a war crime".

"We will hold Russia and Putin to account," she added.

Russia has denied carrying out a targeted strike.

Joe Inwood
Reporting from Kramatorsk railway station

Just a few hours after the attack and the clear-up operation is already well under way.

The dozens of bodies that were clearly visible in the gruesome videos of the aftermath are gone. Only a few patches of blood remain. Most of the luggage has been removed too, a sign of journeys to safety that ended in tragedy.

The once busy station is almost entirely deserted now, save for a few police officers and the workmen boarding up the broken windows.

There are four burned-out cars in front of Kramatorsk railway station, but step a few dozen metres away from the building and you see a far more remarkable sight.

The back half of a missile lies embedded in the earth. On its side are written the words "for children".

There are conflicting reports about where the missile came from and whether the train station was its intended target. What we do know is that, once again, it is Ukrainian civilians, including children, who have paid the price.

The BBC's Joe Inwood has arrived at the scene of the station blast in Kramatorsk and has just sent these photos of a missile and burned out cars.

We'll bring you more from him as soon as we get it.

EU and US leaders have been responding to the strike at Kramatorsk railway station this morning, where the latest estimate from Ukraine is at least 39 people have been killed and many more injured.

President of the European Council, Charles Michel, said it was "horrifying" to see the missile hit one of the main stations used by civilians evacuating the region.

EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, strongly condemned this morning's attack, external and called it "yet another attempt to close escape routes for those fleeing this unjustified war".

And a White House spokeswoman decried the "horrific and devastating images" of the attack in an interview with CNN, cited by Reuters.

Elsewhere in Ukraine, the governor of the Sumy region in the north-east of the country says the Ukrainian military has regained full control of the area.

Dmytro Zhyvytskyy wrote on social media, external that Russian forces had withdrawn from Sumy but he warned residents against returning before mines were cleared.

The city, which is close to the Russian border, was the scene of heavy bombardment and fighting early in the invasion.

Britain's Ministry of Defence said this morning that Russian forces have now fully withdrawn from northern Ukraine.

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The remnants of one of the missiles dropped near Kramatorsk station appears to have the words "for the children" written on it in Russian.

The phrase - "za detei" in Russian - suggests it was fired in support of children, or in retaliation to an attack on children, rather than aimed at children.

Ukrainian officials say the railway station strike in Kramatorsk has killed at least 39 people including four children. The station was being used to evacuate civilians from the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, where fighting has intensified in recent days.

The European Union has agreed further sanctions targeting Russia.

The EU says this fifth package of "restrictive measures" is aimed at ramping up economic pressure on the Kremlin and aims to "cripple its ability to finance its invasion of Ukraine".

The latest sanctions package, external includes:

• An import ban on all forms of Russian coal
• A full transaction ban and asset freeze on four Russian banks
• A ban on Russian and Belarusian freight road operators working in the EU
• Excluding Russia from procurement contracts

Additional sanctions are being considered by the EU, including targeting oil imports and transaction methods. The EU has said reducing its dependency on Russian energy imports is a priority.

Thousands of people - most of them women and children and the elderly - were at the railway station in Kramatorsk when it was hit by rockets, the city's mayor Oleksander Honcharenko has said.

The station, which lies in eastern Ukraine, was being used to evacuate civilians from the Donbas region in the east.

These were the scenes at Kramatorsk train station earlier in the week as people waited for trains. Russia is believed to be stepping up its offensive in Donbas as it withdraws from the north.

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Russia has denied involvement in the strikes on the railway station in Kramatorsk.

The country's defence ministry said accusations that Russia had attacked the station were "a provocation" and "absolutely untrue".

Moscow has issued similar denials in recent days as evidence has emerged of attacks on civilians around the capital Kyiv.

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The war in Ukraine has rattled grain and vegetable oil markets, causing world food prices to jump to a new record high in March, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says, external.

Ukraine and Russia are major exporters of basic foodstuffs, and the war has hit crop production, driving up prices.

Some 30% of the world's wheat comes from Ukraine and Russia, and the conflict has affected exports.

Russia also produces enormous amounts of nutrients, like potash and phosphate - key ingredients in fertilisers, which enable plants and crops to grow.

Thirty-nine people were reportedly killed after two rockets hit Kramatorsk train station, according to the region's governor.

Writing on Telegram, external, Pavlo Kyrylenko said the death toll had risen to 39, and that 87 people had also been wounded.

He added that many had suffered serious wounds.

There are differing figures emerging from Ukraine about the total number wounded in the attack, with President Zelensky saying around 300 were injured.

Kyrylenko said that despite the bombardment, evacuations from the region would continue.

UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has apologised "with frustration" for visa delays that have prevented thousands of Ukrainian refugees entering the UK.

Just a quarter of the 40,900 people who have successfully applied have reached the UK.

Of those, only 1,200 people have arrived under the Homes for Ukraine scheme, which allows people to sponsor refugees.

The programme's been criticised for the amount of bureaucracy involved in making an application, forcing some to make alternative arrangements.

Patel told BBC News: "I'll be very candid, it has taken time. Any new scheme takes time, any new visa system takes time."

The Refugee Council charity has accused the government of "choosing control over compassion".

Read more on the home secretary's apology and refugee figures here.

Two children have reportedly died in the strike on Kramatorsk railway station, according to the chairman of Ukraine's state railway company.

Writing on Telegram, external, Oleksandr Kamyshin said that according to operational data, at least two children had died during the attack.

Some images coming in from Kramatorsk rail station, independently verified by the BBC, show the devastation after this morning's attack.

Train company officials say at least 30 have been killed and 100 injured in the attack.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned the attack on the Kramatorsk train station, where around 30 people are believed to have been killed.

Writing on Instagram, external, Zelensky said: "Lacking the strength and courage to stand up to us on the battlefield, they are cynically destroying the civilian population.

"This is an evil that has no limits. And if it is not punished, it will never stop."

Some more details now from Kramatorsk, where the state rail company says at least 30 people were killed this morning in a missile strike at the town's train station.

Nathan Mook, chief executive of the World Central Kitchen charity, was at the station just moments before the attack and spoke to the BBC about what he witnessed.

"We were driving by the station over an overpass, we could see well over a thousand people. It was crowded, just like it was yesterday and the day before," he said.

Mook says he then heard the sound of five to 10 explosions "two minutes after we had driven by".

"You feel it before you hear it. The explosion rattles you on the inside."

"One of our guys at the [food] warehouse said he had seen Ukrainian air defences intercept one of the rockets. These were missiles."

After driving back to the site of the attack, Mook describes a scene of devastation: "The remnants of one of the missiles in the parking lots, blown out windows, a couple [of] dozen casualties."

"Emergency crews were on the ground very quickly, tending to people that were injured and had been killed," he added.

Mook posted the video below yesterday, which gives some sense of the crowds at the station.

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The UK has imposed sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin's two adult daughters.

His daughters' names - Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova and Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova - have now been added to the UK's sanctions list.

It is part of a "coordinated" effort with the US, who has already imposed sanctions on the two women.

The UK government has also imposed sanctions on Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov's daughter, Yekaterina Sergeyevna Vinokurova.

In a Foreign Office press release, the UK government said it was further targeting the "lavish lifestyles of the Kremlin's inner circle", with travel bans and asset freezes imposed on the three.

According to the UK government, more than £275bn of Putin's war chest has now been frozen by co-ordinated UK and international sanctions in recent weeks.

It added that Russia is heading for the deepest recession since the collapse of the Soviet Union as sanctions hit President Putin's ability to wage war in Ukraine.