Ukrainian authorities said on Monday that a Russian missile hit a “busy” shopping mall in Kremenchuk, central Ukraine, killing and injuring people. The balance sheet, which currently stands at ten dead and around forty injured, could be very heavy.
A Russian missile hit a “busy” shopping center in Kremenchuk, central Ukraine, on Monday, killing and injuring people, authorities said, adding that the toll could be very heavy. According to Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, at least ten people were killed and 40 others injured, nine of them in serious condition. “Rescue operations continue,” he wrote on Telegram.
More than 1,000 civilians present in the mall
“Occupants fired a missile at a mall where more than 1,000 civilians were present. The mall is on fire and rescuers are fighting the blaze. The number of casualties is impossible to imagine,” the president wrote on Facebook. Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky. He accompanied his message with a video showing the shopping center on fire, emitting large clouds of smoke, with fire trucks and a dozen people on site.
“The missile fire on Kremenchuk hit a very crowded place that 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,” he added. Regional Governor Dmytro Lounin denounced a “war crime” and a “crime against humanity”, as well as an “undisguised and cynical act of terror against the civilian population”.