According to news agencies, at least ten people have died in the attack. The number could grow even more, as President Zelensky said there were a thousand civilians in the mall.
Russia again fired a missile at a civilian target in Ukraine on Monday. The missile hit a shopping mall in the city of Kremenchuk in central Ukraine.
At least ten people have been killed and 40 injured in the attack, according to news agencies. President Volodymyr Zelenskyi says the messaging service in Telegram that there were more than a thousand people there.
– The number of victims is impossible to even imagine … It is useless to hope for decency and humanity from Russia, Zelenskyi wrote in the Telegram.
Governor: Terrorist action against civilians
Governor of Poltava Oblast Dmytro Lunin condemned the attack and said it was a war crime and a crime against humanity.
“It was a terrorist act against civilians,” Lunin said.
He said it would take at least two days to examine the ruins of the mall. Rescue workers and soldiers are looking for survivors and victims under the rubble.
The blow has also worsened internationally. For example, the British Prime Minister Boris JohnsonU.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the United Nations has already condemned the attack.
– At least that’s unfortunate. No civilian structures, including shopping malls, of course, and civilians should ever be targeted, a UN spokesman said. Stephane Dujarric told reporters.
US anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine
The United States is planning to send Ukraine medium- and long-range anti-aircraft missiles. The White House Security Adviser spoke about the matter Jake Sullivan on Monday.
According to Sullivan, the president of the United States Joe Biden had told Zelensky about this, who attended the G7 meeting remotely on Monday.
In a daily speech on Sunday night, Zelenskyi said Ukraine is in dire need of more anti-aircraft missile systems. According to Zelensky, only part of the missile strikes by Ukraine by Russian forces can be repelled at the moment.
Zelenskyi said he discusses the need for air defense with his allies on a daily basis. Zelenskyi said the allies should provide assistance more quickly if the countries are truly allies of Ukraine and not side followers.
Heavy artillery fire in the Izjum area
The heavy artillery fire that lasted a week in the direction of Izjum, Ukraine, suggests that Russia is trying to gain new momentum in its attack in the region, the intelligence report of the British Ministry of Defense says. Izjum is located southeast of Kharkiv.
According to the intelligence report, Ukrainian forces are using the wooded terrain to support their defenses in the Izjum region.
The main focus of the Russian attack is still on Severodonetsk and Lysytshansk in eastern Ukraine. The mayor of Severodonetsk, Oleksandr Striuk, said on Saturday that Severodonetsk was completely taken over by Russian troops.
According to a British intelligence report, the Russian offensive war is likely to rely more and more on reserve forces in the coming weeks.
Despite shortcomings in the number of reservists to be deployed to Ukraine, the Russian leadership appears to be reluctant to impose a general mobilization, the intelligence report estimates.