KYIV, Ukraine: Toll from Russian missile attacks in a shopping center in the central city of Kremenchuk has increased to 16 people killed and 59 people were injured, the head of the Ukrainian Emergency Service said Tuesday morning.”Until now, we know 16 people died and 59 were injured, 25 of them were treated in hospitals. This information is being updated,” said Sergiy Kruk in Telegram.
He said the main tasks were “rescue work, removal of debris, and fire elimination” after Monday’s strike at the shopping center.Previously, Zelensky said “More than a thousand civilians” were in the mall when missiles hit the city, which had a pre-war population consisting of 220,000 people.
“The mall caught fire, the savior put out the fire. The number of victims could not be imagined,” Zelensky wrote on Facebook.A video shared by the President of Ukraine shows a mall filled with fire with dozens of rescue and a fire truck outside.
Emergency services also published images showing the remaining burning buildings, with firefighters and rescuers trying to clean up debris.The Ukraine Ministry of Defense said the strike was deliberately on time to coincide with the most busiest hours of the mall and caused the maximum number of victims.The Ukraine Air Force said the mall was hit by an anti-capal KH-22 missile fired from the TU-22 bomber from the Katakan area in Western Russia.
“The missile fire in Kremenchuk hit a very busy area that did not have a link to hostility,” wrote Mayor of Vital City Maletsky on Facebook.Lunin condemned the attack as “war crimes” and “crime against humanity”, saying it was “cynical acts of terror against civilian populations”.
Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba asked Kyiv allies to supply more heavy weapons and impose fresh sanctions on Russia.”Russia is embarrassing for humanity and must face consequences,” he wrote on Twitter.
The aide of President Mykhaylo Podolyak accused Russia as a “terrorist country”.US Foreign Minister Antony Blinken said, on Twitter, that “the world is horrified by the strike of Russian missiles today, which crashed into a crowded Ukraine shopping center – the latest in a series of cruelty”.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the attack showed “depth of cruelty and barbarism” Russian leader Vladimir Putin.By bombing indiscriminately civilians and civil infrastructure, Russia continues a terrible violation of the law of international humanity,” he wrote on Twitter.
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