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At least 10 people were killed and 40 others injured in a Russian missile attack on a downtown shopping mall. Ukraine On Monday (27), local governor Dmytro Lunin told Reuters.
Kirilo Tymoshenko, Deputy Chief of Staff of President Volodymyr Zelensky, said that there were serious casualties after the missile attack on the city of Kremenchug.
According to Zelensky, the mall houses more than a thousand civilians inside its premises.
A Ukrainian shopping center in the city of Kremenchug after firefighters moved in – Photo: Emergency Services of Ukraine / Reproduction / via Reuters
At the moment there are no details of the victims, but Zelensky said: “It is impossible to imagine the number of victims.”
“There is no danger to the Russian army. No strategic value. Just people trying to lead a normal life, which greatly annoys the occupiers,” I declare.
Kremenchug, an industrial city with a population of 217,000 before the Russian invasion Ukraine On February 24, it is located on the Dnipro River in the Poltava region and is home to the largest oil refinery in Ukraine.
A Ukrainian shopping center in the city of Kremenchug after firefighters moved in – Photo: Emergency Services of Ukraine / Reproduction / via Reuters
Vadim Denisenko, Adviser to the Ministry of the Interior in Ukrainesaid that Russia He can have three motives to attack.
“The first is undoubtedly sowing panic, the second…destroying our infrastructure, and the third…raising the risks to bring the civilized West back to the negotiating table,” he said. .
The Russia He hasn’t spoken yet.
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