Russian missiles destroy Ukrainian shopping center
Russia said on Monday it had hit a shopping center in Kiev with a high-precision long-range weapon as Ukrainian forces used it as a rocket store and reloading station.
A Kyiv shopping center was attacked late Sunday night, killing at least eight people, vandalizing nearby buildings and leaving piles of rubble and wreckage of burnt cars several hundred meters wide.
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“The area around the shopping center was used as a large base for storing rocket weapons and reloading several rocket launchers,” Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov told reporters.
“High-precision long-range weapons destroyed the batteries of multiple rocket launchers in Ukraine on the night of March 21 and an ammunition store in a derelict shopping center,” he said.
Konashenkov showed a video in which he said Ukraine was using the shopping center as a weapons store and reloading station.
Russia’s aggression in Ukraine has killed thousands of people, displaced 10 million and raised fears of widespread conflict between Russia and the United States.
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President Vladimir Putin says Ukraine needs a “special military operation” because the United States has been using Ukraine to threaten Russia. He says Russia must defend itself against the “genocide” of Russian-speaking people by Ukraine.
Ukraine has said it is fighting for its existence against Russia’s imperialist occupation of land and that Putin’s claims of genocide are rubbish.
The West has imposed extensive sanctions on Russia, the equivalent of the Kremlin declaring economic war on the United States and its allies. China calls for peace
Moscow says the Western media has given a one-sided version of the war, ignoring Russian descriptions.
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“We would like to remind the Western media again: we have used civilian objects as artillery and rocket systems in Kiev’s residential areas and in other cities as firing positions in the Kiev nationalist regime,” Konashenkov said.
Konashenkov said the Russian operation was being conducted by a professional and well-equipped force, and denied Ukraine’s claim that Russian forces had hit any civilian objects.
He called Ukraine’s claims about the loss of Russian workers and equipment “propaganda lies.”
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Russian missiles destroy Ukrainian shopping center
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