PostedJune 27, 2022, 5:03 PM
The Ukrainian authorities fear a “very heavy” toll. According to them, the shopping center was hosting “more than 1,000 civilians” at the time of the Russian strike and was the prey of a huge fire.
On May 9, a shopping center in Odessa, on the Black Sea coast, was hit by a Russian missile.
AFP
A Russian missile hit a “busy” shopping center in Kremenchuk, central Ukraine, between kyiv and Zaporizhia, late Monday followingnoon, killing and injuring people, authorities said. local authorities, stating that the toll might be very heavy. According to Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, in an initial assessment, at least two people were killed and 20 others injured, including nine in serious condition. “Rescue operations continue,” he wrote on Telegram.
“The occupiers fired a missile at a shopping center where there were more than a thousand civilians. The mall is on fire and rescuers are battling the blaze. The number of victims is impossible to imagine,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Facebook. He accompanied his message with a video showing the shopping center on fire, emitting large clouds of smoke, with fire engines and a dozen people on site.
“The missile fire on Kremenchuk hit a very busy place, which has no connection with the hostilities”, for his part indicated, on Facebook, Vitali Maletsky, the mayor of this city which had 220,000 inhabitants before the war. “There are dead and injured. More details will come…»
The regional governor, Dmytro Lounine, denounced a “war crime” and a “crime once morest humanity”, as well as an “undisguised and cynical act of terror once morest the civilian population”.
(AFP)
