At least 10 people were killed and more than 40 injured in a Russian missile strike on Monday on a “very crowded” shopping center in central Ukraine that set it on fire.
“Ten people were killed and more than 40 were injured,” said Dmytro Lunin, governor of the Poltava region, where the city, which had a population of regarding 220,000 people before the war, is located. This is the situation currently in Kremenchuk because of the missile strike.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Facebook: “The occupiers fired a missile at a shopping center where more than a thousand civilians were present. The mall is burning and rescue workers are battling the flames. It is impossible to imagine the number of victims.
Zelensky attached his message with a video clip showing the flames in the shopping center, from which large clouds of smoke rose, fire engines and dozens of people at the site.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, the mall was hit by KH-22 anti-ship missiles fired by Tu-22 long-range bombers from Russia’s Kursk region.