Drones targeted a packed train in north-eastern Ukraine, officials say.
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More than 200 people were on the train, officials said, when one of the carriages was hit by a drone and two other drones exploded nearby, in Ukraine's north-eastern Kharkiv region on Tuesday.
Zelensky said 18 people were in the carriage at the time and there was no "military justification" in targeting civilians.
Russia has not commented on the strike, but it has intensified drone and missile attacks on Ukraine's energy and transport infrastructure during the harshest winter in years.
Elsewhere in Ukraine, the southern port city of Odesa was hit by dozens of drones and officials said three people were killed and dozens more wounded.
Energy officials said a local facility had suffered "enormous damage" overnight into Tuesday and Odesa city chief Serhii Lysak said attacks had continued for a second night into Wednesday.
Meanwhile, in the Kyiv region, a couple were killed and their four-year-old child was hurt when a residential block of flats was hit in a district close to the capital, police said.
Millions of people across Ukraine have been left without heating, electricity and water after the Russian assaults.
Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion in February 2022, and Moscow currently controls about 20% of Ukrainian territory.
In a post on social media late on Tuesday, Zelensky wrote: "In any country, a drone strike on a civilian train would be considered in exactly the same way - purely as terrorism."
Pictures and footage released by Ukraine's emergency services show at least one badly destroyed carriage still burning after the attack.
Kharkiv's regional prosecutor's office said the train was struck near the Yazykove village.
The office said the train
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