散乱する遺体、血まみれの人々… ウクライナ駅攻撃の現場

【ＡＦＰ＝時事】ウクライナ東部クラマトルスクで８日に起きた鉄道駅への攻撃は、東部を逃れようとする大勢の人で駅が連日混雑する朝の時間帯に発生した。（写真はウクライナ東部クラマトルスクの鉄道駅付近に残る「われわれの子どもたちのために」と書かれたミサイルの残骸を調べる警察）
　駅は２発のミサイルにより攻撃され、子ども５人を含む少なくとも５０人が死亡。現場には、人体の一部や荷物、ぬいぐるみが散乱した。
　放置された荷物の中から自分のパスポートを捜していたナタリアさんはＡＦＰに、「私は駅内にいた。爆発のような音が２回聞こえて、身を守るために壁に駆け寄った」と語った。「血まみれの人々が駅に入ってきて、地面のあちこちに人が横たわっているのを見た。けが人か遺体かは分からなかった」
　駅の外では、民間人の服を着た約３０人の遺体がシートに覆われて売店横に置かれ、地面には血だまりが残っていた。赤いタートルネックを着た女性は涙を流しながら、「夫を捜している。ここにいたが、連絡が取れない」と説明。震えながら携帯電話を耳元に持ち、遺体に近づくのをためらっていた。
　クラマトルスクは、今週ロシア軍の空爆を受けたことを除いては、ウクライナ東部の他都市が受けたような大きな被害は免れていた。だがロシア軍が間もなく東部に攻勢をかけるとの懸念から、多くの人が避難を開始。地元ドネツク州の検察当局によると、攻撃発生時、駅には女性や子どもを中心に約４０００人の民間人がいた。

■ミサイルに親ロ派のスローガン
　駅の外では、焼け焦げた車４台の横に緑色のミサイルの残骸があり、その周辺には規制線が張られていた。現場の警官はＡＦＰに、「あれはトーチカミサイルで、破片爆弾だ」と語り、「サッカー場ほどの範囲で複数回爆発する」と説明。ＡＦＰ取材班は現場で少なくとも４か所の着弾点を確認し、小さく鋭利な鉄の輪を見つけた。
　ミサイルの残骸には、ロシア語で「われわれの子どもたちのために」と白い塗料で書かれていた。これは親ロシア派武装勢力がしばしば使う表現で、２０１４年から東部ドンバス地方で続く紛争で親ロ派側が払った犠牲に言及している。
　ロシアは攻撃への関与を否定し、ウクライナ政府が実行したと主張している。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2022/04/11-09:36）

The attack on the train station in Kramatorsk came mid-morning, when hundreds were gathered, waiting for evacuation out of eastern Ukraine as they had done at the same time for the last several days.
Body parts, packed bags and stuffed animals were flung across the floor after two rockets struck the busy hub on Friday, killing at least 50 people.
I was in the station. I heard like a double explosion. I rushed to the wall for protection, said Natalia, searching for her passport among the abandoned belongings.
I saw people covered in blood coming into the station and bodies everywhere on the ground. I don't know if they were just injured or dead, she told AFP.
Around 30 bodies, all in civilian clothing, were grouped together and placed under plastic sheets next to a kiosk daubed yellow and blue -- the colours of Ukraine's flag -- outside the station, where blood pooled on the ground.
On the station platform, a walking stick lay next to a lump of flesh. Further along, a toy rabbit soaked red.
The toll from the strikes rose through the day with the governor of the Donetsk region saying 50 people had been killed, including five children.
Kramatorsk had been hit by Russian strikes earlier this week but had been otherwise spared the destruction witnessed by other eastern Ukraine cities since Russia's invasion.
- 'Looking for my husband' -
Moscow denied involvement in Friday's strike and accused Kyiv of carrying out the attack.
Ukrainian authorities had warned this week that time was running out to flee westwards in advance of an anticipated Russian attack.
Rescue workers and men in camouflage carried bodies onto a truck to be ferried away. Some of the bags were light and needed no more than two men to be carried.
Prosecutors in the Donetsk region said in a statement that at the time of the attack there were approximately 4,000 civilians at the station, mostly women and children.
Earlier in the morning, AFP saw dozens of people -- women, children and the elderly -- throng the station desperate to escape the feared Russian advance on eastern Ukraine.
After the attack, a sneaker with the foot still inside was visible under a bench, where the people hoping to be evacuated had been waiting.
A policeman moved between the debris, picking up phones and putting them in a box, one of them ringing out incessantly.
I'm looking for my husband. He was here. I can't reach him, sobbed a woman in a red turtle neck. Shaking, she hesitated to get closer to the bodies, holding her phone to her ear.
- 'For our children' -
The head of Ukraine's railway company, Alexander Kamyshin had said earlier that at least 100 were injured by two rockets hitting the station.
This is a deliberate attack on the passenger infrastructure of the railway and the residents of Kramatorsk, Kamyshin said.
A soldier at one of the three hospitals in the city told AFP that around 50 wounded had arrived from the scene.
Many of them will die because they have lost a lot of blood, and we don't have enough blood, he said.
Outside the station, four burnt-out cars could be seen next to the military-green remains of a rocket, cordoned off.
It's a Tochka missile, a fragmentation bomb, a policeman on the scene told AFP. It explodes in several places over an area the size of a football pitch.
On the ground, an AFP team counted at least four points of impact and collected small, sharp rings of steel.
The missile was tagged with white paint with the words for our children in Russian, a recurring expression used by pro-Russian separatists in reference to their losses since the start of the first Donbas war in 2014.