Day 45 of the Invasion of Ukraine: More civilian casualties, Plan for Ukraine's accession to the EU

New civilian casualties, a plan to accelerate Ukraine's accession to the EU, expelled human rights organizations: read the highlights of the war in Ukraine over the past 24 hours.

52 victims in a railway station attack

At least 50 people, including five children, were killed in a rocket attack on a railway station in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk. The station was full of civilians waiting to be evacuated, Donetsk Governor Pavlo Kirilenko said. After the attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described Russia as an "evil without borders." US President Joe Biden has accused Russia of being behind the attack, calling the incident a "horrific atrocity", and French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian described it as a "crime against humanity". Russia's Defense Ministry has accused Kyiv of carrying out the attack and accused the Ukrainian army of "using refugees as a 'human shield' to defend the positions of Ukraine's armed forces."

Evacuation from the eastern parts

The attack came as civilians in eastern Ukraine struggled to evacuate after authorities called on them to leave their homes at the "last chance" to avoid a major Russian offensive expected in the Donbas region. Russia has redeployed its troops to the east and south, seeking to establish a land link between occupied Crimea and Moscow-backed separatist states of Donetsk and Luhansk in Donbas.

EU chief warns of Russia's "disintegration"

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Russia would "fall into economic, financial and technological decline as Ukraine moves towards a European future". Von der Leyen met...