OREANDA-NEWS The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) stated on Thursday that the Russian missile Iskander hit a railway station in eastern Ukraine’s Dnepropetrovsk region, eliminating 200 Ukrainian troops.Russian MoD spokesman Igor Konashenkov told reporters that “as a result of a direct strike by an Iskander missile on a military echelon at the Chaplino railway station in the Dnepropetrovsk region, more than 200 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and 10 units of military equipment were destroyed as they were on their way to the combat zone in Donbass”.He added that a separate "high-precision strike by the Russian Aerospace Forces near the Novy Bug settlement in the Nikolayev region destroyed a command post of the Kakhovka grouping of Ukrainian troops”. As a result, 64 Ukrainian soldiers were killed, according to Konashenkov.The developments come after Reuters cited Kiev officials as arguing that 25 civilians were purportedly killed in a Russian missile strike on a railway station in eastern Ukraine.Russia has been conducting a special operation to demilitarize and de-Nazify Ukraine since February 24, which was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin following requests from the Donbass republics to protect them from Kiev. According to the Russian MoD, the operation only aims to target Ukraine’s military infrastructure with high-precision weapons.Iskander is a mobile ballistic missile system designed to destroy a variety of ground targets at a range of up to 500km (more than 300 miles).