Ukraine says seven killed in Russian attack on evacuees

Seven people were killed and couple of dozens injured in a Russian attack on buses ferrying civilians from the war-torn east of the state  Ukraine claimed on Friday

“On April 14, Russian servicemen fired on evacuation buses carrying civilians in the village of Borova in the Izium district,” the office of Ukraine’s prosecutor general said in a statement on social media.

“Preliminary data shows seven people died. Another 27 people were injured.”

Ukrainian authorities have been urging people in the south and the Donbas area in the east to quickly move west in advance of a large-scale Russian offensive to capture its composite regions, Lugansk and Donetsk.

In the eastern  side city of Kramatorsk, Russian military  were past  week accused of targeting a train station used for evacuations, in an attack that caused 50 casualties.

The rising situation in the east of the country led Kyiv to halt all evacuations on Wednesday said the situation along humanitarian angle  was too unsafe.