A missile strike on Monday hit a crowded shopping center in the city of Ukraine in Ukraine Kremenchuk, the Reuters news agency quoted the President of Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Zelenskyy stated that more than 1,000 people were in a shopping center when strikes occurred, and that “it is impossible to imagine the number of victims”. At present, there are no details of causality.
Horror scenes in Kremenchuk, as a Russian missile hits a shopping centre. The man speaking on phone : “people were are the building, the walls are starting to fall in” pic.twitter.com/REDBFmuT3R
— Oliver Carroll (@olliecarroll) June 27, 2022
Records of the attack circulating on social media showed large -rancid fires and smoking out of the shopping center as a panic.
⚡️ Zelensky: 'Russia strikes shopping center in Kremenchuk, while over thousand people inside.'
“The mall is on fire, firefighters are trying to extinguish the fire, the number of victims is impossible to imagine," said President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Volodymyr Zelensky/Telegram pic.twitter.com/Pb8IGeAevD
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) June 27, 2022
Oliver Carroll, a correspondent for The Economist, said “horror scenes”, quoting a man who spoke on the phone who said people in the building and the complex walls began to fall.