A Russian attack killed 25 civilians when missiles struck a railway station and a residential area in eastern Ukraine, officials in Kyiv said, as the nation marked its Independence Day under heavy shelling.

The death toll rose from initially reported 22 after three more bodies were retrieved from rubble in Chaplyne as rescue operations ended, Ukrainian presidential aide Kyrylo Tymoshenko said  Thursday. Russia’s defence ministry said on Thursday its forces had hit Chaplyne railway station in Ukraine’s Dniptropetrovsk.