The missile attack on the Kramatorsk railway station on April 8, 2022, is one of the bloodiest attacks by russia against the Ukrainian civilian population. 61 people were killed, and more than 120 people were injured as they tried to leave for safer regions. At 10:28 a.m., when more than 3,000 people were at the station, russians struck with a 9M79-1 guided missile ("Tochka U").
The use of weapons of such precision and the nature of the injuries suggest that the strike was intended to cause maximum damage to people and disrupt the evacuation.
The "Station Kramatorsk" documentary is dedicated to everyone who was at the station that day: the dead, the wounded, those who saved others, and those who lost a loved one or saw the worst. It is an attempt to convey those terrible moments, to show what it means to be in the epicenter of such an attack. It is about the cruelty of the perpetrators of the tragedy and the incredible strength of the survivors and those who fought for their lives.
The film's protagonists are the surviving passengers Katia Iorgu, Olha Lialko, Ivan Popov, local volunteers Vitalii Osmukha and Olena Sementsova, local administration employees Anton Maliuskiy and Lilia Zolkina, and the head of the Kramatorsk railway station, Liubov Paziura.
The film was created as part of The Reckoning Project, an initiative of Ukrainian and international journalists, analysts, and lawyers to document war crimes.
www.thereckoningproject.com/
Authors: Anna Tsygyma, Nataliya Gumenyuk.
00:00-00:43 - Intro
00:43-03:31 - Surviving witnesses of the shelling (Katia Iorgu, Olena Sementsova) about why they had to leave Donetsk and Luhansk regions in April 2022
03:31-10:58 Volunteers, station staff, and passengers about the evacuation from Kramatorsk station
10:58-14:04 Morning of April 8 before the shelling
14:04-18:55 Strike on Kramatorsk with a "Tochka U" guided missile, what people saw
18:31-26:15 Consequences of the shelling according to eyewitnesses: searching for relatives, providing assistance, treatment
26:15-28:44 What kind of weapon was used by the Russian Federation, why is it a war crime, and what was the purpose of the attack
28:44-33:09 How the survivors Katia Iorgu, her family, and Olena Sementsova live after the tragedy: treatment, realizing the death of loved ones
33:09-35:57 Restoration of the Kramatorsk-Kyiv train, Olha Lialko's poem about her dead sister, final credits
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