I am standing on a rooftop looking out on Lviv on day 44 of Russia's brutal invasion

of Ukraine and Jake Tapper.

Welcome to this special broadcast of the lead live from Western Ukraine.

We start our coverage tonight with what world leaders are calling a despicable abomination

an attack committed by Russian forces against innocent Ukrainian civilians.

A missile strike on a train station, a train station full of Ukrainian families because

they were trying to flee the horrors of Putin's war.

We want to warn you some of the images we will bring you in our show today, their graphic

and their disturbing.

This is the immediate aftermath of that attack in the city of Kramatorsk that's in Ukraine's

east in the Donbass region.

The haunting screams, the sheer panic bodies being dragged away from the chaos of blood

staining the sidewalks.

The regional military governor says at least 50 people were killed, including five children

nearly one hundred others wounded, including children and mothers.

Ukrainian officials have been warning about a Russian advance on the east telling their

civilians get out of there and now it seems Russian forces have directly attacked the

Ukrainians trying to make a run for it.

We understand that it can be unsettling and difficult to see these images of death and

destruction.

But our teams of CNN reporters are spread across this country to bring you the ugly

truth of this war because not long after this strike the Kremlin per usual lied publicly

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