Ukraine mall fires after Russian missile attack kills at least 16
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said that “more than a thousand civilians” were in the mall when missiles struck the city, which had a pre-war population of 220,000 people.
Ukraine’s emergency services chief said early Tuesday that the death toll in a missile attack on a shopping mall in Russia’s central city of Kremenchuk had risen to 16 and wounded 59.
“So far, we know of 16 dead and 59 injured, 25 of them hospitalized. The information is being updated,” Sergey Kruk said on Telegram.
He said the main tasks after Monday’s strike at the shopping center were “rescue work, debris removal and extinguishing the fire”.
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Another act of the russian genocide of the Ukrainian people. This time the ruscists targeted a mall in #Kremenchuk, in the afternoon when it is always especially crowded. The war criminals wanted to kill the civilians, deliberately aiming for the maximum number of casualties. pic.twitter.com/3PbCnjc7PU
— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) June 27, 2022
Earlier, Zelensky said that “more than a thousand civilians” were in the mall when missiles struck the city, which had a pre-war population of 220,000 people.
Zelensky wrote on Facebook: “The mall is on fire, rescuers are fighting the fire. It’s impossible to imagine the number of victims.”
A video shared by Ukraine’s president shows the mall engulfed in flames, with dozens of rescuers and a fire truck outside.
Emergency services also published images showing the smoldering remains of the building, with firefighters and rescue teams trying to clear the rubble.
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said the strike was deliberately done to coincide with the mall’s busiest hours and cause the maximum number of victims.
The Ukrainian Air Force said that Kh-22 anti-ship missiles fired from Tu-22 bombers from the Kursk region in western Russia had hit Maul.
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The city’s mayor, Vitaly Maletsky, wrote on Facebook: “The missile struck a very busy area on Kremenchuk, which had nothing to do with hostilities.”
Lunin condemned the attack as a “war crime” and a “crime against humanity”, saying it was a “blasphemous act of terror against the civilian population”.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba called on Kyiv allies to supply more heavy weapons and impose new sanctions on Russia.
“Russia is an insult to humanity and there will be consequences,” he wrote on Twitter.
Presidential aide Mykhailo Podolyak accused Russia of being a “terrorist state”.
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Twitter: “The world is horrified today by Russia’s missile attack that targeted an overcrowded shopping mall in Ukraine – the latest in a string of atrocities”.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the attack displayed Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s “depth of brutality and barbarism”.
The French Foreign Ministry has also condemned the attack.
“By bombing civilians and civilian infrastructure indiscriminately, Russia continues to commit gross violations of international humanitarian law,” it wrote on Twitter.
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Ukraine mall fires after Russian missile attack kills at least 16
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