Russian missiles hit crowded shopping centre in Kremenchuk Fears of casualties
Russian missiles hit a shopping centre in the city of Kremenchuk in central Ukraine, while more than 1.000 people, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zhelensky said, saying a fire was raging.
"It is impossible to imagine the number of victims," he said without giving details of a casualty count.
The city's mayor Vitaly Meletsky said in a Facebook post that a Russian missile attack hit a location "filled with a crowd", causing deaths and injuries.
He added that he was at the scene, without giving an account of casualties.
The governor of Poltava region, where Kremenchuk belongs, Dmitry Lunin said Russian forces hit a building in an attack in the city. "Unfortunately, there are victims. More details later," Lunin said."
Volodymyr Zelensky posted a video on his Telegram account on Monday denouncing a Russian attack on a shopping center in Kremenchuk, central Ukraine."
As Zelensky said, "The occupiers fired rockets at the shopping center, where more than a thousand civilians were present. The shopping centre is burning, rescuers are fighting the fire, it is impossible to imagine the number of victims."
[/P]"(There was) no danger for the Russian army. No strategic value. Only the people's attempt to live a normal life, which so infuriates the occupiers," Zelensky stressed in his post."
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