One of the most horrific Russian air strikes in recent days has been the missile strike on a rail station in Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine, which killed scores of people, including children, as they were waiting for a train.
Please click on the images for glimpses of the aftermath of the Russian attack.
IMAGE: The remains of a Russian missile near the rail station in Kramatorsk. Photograph: Reuters
IMAGE: The cryptic message on the missile reads: 'Because of children'. Photograph: Reuters
IMAGE: Burned cars at the site of the missile strike in Kramatorsk. Photograph: Reuters
IMAGE: The site of the missile strike at the rail station in Kramatorsk. Photograph: Stringer/Reuters
IMAGE: The destroyed Ukrainian Antonov An-225 Mriya cargo aircraft, which was the largest plane in the world, among the wreckage of Russian military vehicles at the Hostomel airfield. Photograph: Alexey Furman/Getty Images
IMAGE: Shells in the foreground and all that is left of the Mriya at the Hostomel airfield. Photograph: Alexey Furman/Getty Images
IMAGE: The Mykolaiv international airport destroyed by Russian shelling. Photograph: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters
IMAGE: A photograph lies on the ground near a house destroyed by Russian shelling in Borodyanka. Photograph: Gleb Garanich/Reuters
IMAGE: The remains of a rocket at the city zoo following Russian bombing. Photograph: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters
Photographs curated by Manisha Kotian/Rediff.com
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