A rocket attack on a train station in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk killed dozens on Friday as civilians raced to leave the Donbas region in the crosshairs of the Russian army, writes ndtv.com.

39 people were killed, including four children, Ukraine’s SBU security service said, in one of the deadliest strikes of the 6-week-old war.

President Volodymyr Zelensky reported 300 were injured, saying the strike showed “evil with no limits”.

AFP journalists on the scene saw the bodies of at least 30 people grouped and lying under plastic sheets next to the station, before being loaded onto a military truck.

Blood was pooling on the ground and packed bags were strewn outside the building in the immediate aftermath of the attack.

The remains of a large rocket with the words “for our children” in Russian was lying just adjacent to the main building.