Kiev, 25 August 2022 (dpa/MIA) - The Russian Defence Ministry has confirmed that its forces were behind the shelling of a railway station in central Ukraine on Wednesday which Kiev said had killed at least 25 people including civilians. Ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov claimed that more than 200 Ukrainian soldiers set to fight in the eastern Donbass region were killed in a strike with an Iskander missile in the central Dnepropetrovsk region. However, there was no evidence to support the claim that so many soldiers died. Ukraine had previously spoken of 25 dead, including two children, and more than 30 injured. The rocket hit the military part of the train station, Konashenkov said. Military equipment was also destroyed. Kiev, on the other hand, spoke of shelling inhabited areas. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had strongly condemned the attack, which was carried out on Ukraine's Independence Day. The deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential office Kyrylo Tymoshenko spoke of residences and railway facilities in the town of Chaplyne in the Dnipropetrovsk region having been shelled. Tymoshenko said that one of the children killed was an 11-year-old boy who died under the rubble of a house, while a six-year-old child died in a car fire near the train station, The information from either side cannot be independently verified, given the difficulty of receiving reliable information from the war between Ukraine and Russia, which has been raging since February. Train stations and rail infrastructure have been repeatedly hit during the war. In April, at least 57 people died in an attack on the Kramatorsk station in the eastern Donbass region. Meanwhile the international cluster munitions coalition said that according to observers, internationally banned cluster munitions have only been used in Ukraine this year. The coalition claimed that Russia has used large amounts of cluster munitions in its war against Ukraine. It spoke of "shocking reports of hundreds of casualties from cluster munition attacks in Ukraine, after Russia invaded the country in February 2022." "Preliminary data indicates at least 689 casualties reported during cluster munition attacks in Ukraine for the first half of 2022. Many casualties may have gone unrecorded," it added. An international pact reached in 2008 bans cluster munitions. However, key countries and large regions of the world are not part of the treaty. Outsiders include the United States and Russia.