At least 10 people died and more than 40 were injured due to the impact of a Russian missile in a Kremenchuk Shopping Center this Monday, the regional governor announced, warning that the balance might worsen.
“Ten dead and more than 40 people were injured. This is the current situation in Kremenchuk because of the bombardment with a missile”, indicated Dmytro Lunin, who heads the regional government of Poltava, where this city that before the war had 220,000 inhabitants is located.
“The occupants fired a missile once morest a shopping center where there were more than a thousand civilians. The shopping center is on fire and rescue teams are fighting the fire,” Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski had written.
The President accompanied his message with a video in which the shopping center is seen on fire, shrouded in great clouds of smoke, with fire trucks and a dozen people on site.
In other images released by the rescue services you can see the charred remains of the building with firefighters and cleaning staff working.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, the shopping center was attacked with Kh-22 anti-ship missiles fired from Tu-22 long-range bombers from Russia’s Kursk region.
“The missile shot once morest Kremenchuk reached a very popular place that had nothing to do with the hostilities”Vitali Maletsky, mayor of that city, said on Facebook on Facebook.
Lunin, the regional governor, denounced one “war crime” and a “crime once morest humanity”, as well as a “undisguised act of terror and cynical once morest the civilian population”.
Another attack in kyiv
Russia on Monday blamed Ukraine for the “fall” of a missile intercepted by its anti-aircraft defenses in a residential building in kyiv on Sundayin an attack launched by Russian forces allegedly once morest the rocket and space industry company Artem in which one person was killed.
“On June 26, the Russian Aerospace Forces launched an attack with four high-precision air-launched missiles on the Artem factory in the Shevchenkivskyi district of kyiv,” Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.
According to Moscow, all four missiles hit the target and “the civil infrastructure of the city of kyiv was not damaged as a result of the use of high-precision weapons”.
The Russian version is that the building was hit when Ukraine tried to intercept the Russian missiles with S-300 and Buk M1 anti-aircraft missile systems, allegedly using “more than 10 anti-aircraft missiles”.
“Due to the lack of interface between the launchers of air defense systems and radio equipment located in urban areas, Ukrainian Buk shot down two S-300 anti-aircraft missiles in the air. Allegedly, one of the downed anti-aircraft missiles landed on a residential building,” Konashenkov said.
As indicated on Monday in its Telegram account by the kyiv Mayor’s Office, emergency rescue operations at the site of the Russian bombing continue.
Ukraine claims the Russians fired a missile at a nine-story building and the territory of a kindergarten in the Shevchenkivskyi district. The 7th, 8th and 9th floors of the building were partially destroyed and the main water pipe in the courtyard of the nursery was damaged, according to the City Council.
One person was killed in the shelling and six others were injured to varying degrees. In addition, four citizens were hospitalized, including a seven-year-old girl.
