At least 13 people were killed and more than 40 wounded on Monday in a Russian missile attack that set a shopping mall ablaze in Kremenchuk, central Ukraine.
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“Thirteen people were killed in the shelling of Kremenchuk. It is too early to talk about the final death toll,” said Dmytro Lunin, governor of the Poltava region, where the pre-war city of 220,000 is located.
“The occupants fired a missile at a shopping center where there were more than a thousand civilians. The shopping center is on fire and the rescue teams are fighting the fire,” Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski had written.
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He accompanied his message with a video showing the mall on fire, engulfed in large clouds of smoke, with fire trucks and a dozen people on the scene.
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 by Kh-22 anti-ship missiles fired from Tu-22 long-range bombers from Russia’s Kursk region..
“The missile shot at Kremenchuk hit a highly frequented location that was completely unrelated to the hostilities,” Vitali Maletsky said on Facebook.
mayor of that city, on Facebook.
Lunin, the regional governor, denounced a “war crime” and a “crime against humanity” as well as an “undisguised and cynical act of terror against the civilian population.”
UN response
At the request of kyiv, the United Nations Security Council will meet urgently on Tuesday to assess the extent of the bombingaccording to diplomatic sources.
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The firing of a missile against the shopping center in Kremenchuk, in central Ukraine, “will be the main topic” of this session, said a spokesman for the Albanian mission.
In turn, “missile fire towards kyiv” hit a residential complex in the Ukrainian capital on Sunday and will also be discussed at the meeting, the source said.
Those shots left one dead and 14 wounded, according to authorities a few hours before the opening of the G7 Summit in Germany, where issues related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine are discussed.
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*With information from AFP
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