Ukraine news LIVE: Evil Vladimir Putin launches ‘repugnant ‘provocations’ as sick forces strike train leaving 22 dead

VLADIMIR Putin’s forces fired rockets at a busy train, leaving 22 dead in an act of “repugnant provocation” on Ukraine Independence Day. Kyiv officials say a Russian missile attack killed 22 civilians and set a passenger train on fire in eastern Ukraine and north of the capital as Ukraine marked its Independence Day under heavy shelling. President Volodymyr Zelensky had warned of the risk of “repugnant Russian provocations” ahead of the 31st anniversary on Wednesday of Ukraine’s independence from Moscow-dominated Soviet rule, and public celebrations were cancelled. The holiday also coincided with six months since Vladimir Putin’s brutal forces invaded Ukraine, touching off Europe’s most devastating conflict since World War Two. In video remarks to the United Nations Security Council, Zelenskiy said rockets hit a train in the small town of Chaplyne, some 145 km (90 miles) west of Russian-occupied Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. “Chaplyne is our pain today. As of this moment there are 22 dead,” he said in a later evening video address, adding that Ukraine would hold Russia responsible for all it had done. Read our Ukraine-Russia blog below for the latest updates…