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Kremenchuk — For crowded shopping of Russian missile strikes At least two people were killed and 20 were injured at a center in the city of Kremenchuk in central Ukraine on Monday, according to a senior Ukrainian official.
The attack caused a huge fire, and the footage circulated by President Volodymyr Zelensky showed that dark smoke swirled into the sky.
A Reuters reporter saw a burnt shell in a shopping street with a hollow roof. Firefighters and soldiers were pulling out broken pieces of metal while looking for survivors.
"I don't know how many people are left under the rubble," the local emergency captain said on television.
Zelenskyy said more than 1,000 people were in the shopping center at the time of the attack. He didn't reveal the details of the casualties, but said, "I can't even imagine the number of victims."
"It doesn't make sense to expect dignity and humanity from Russia," Zelenskyy wrote in the Telegram messaging app.
⚡️ Zelensky: "Russia has hit the Kremenchuk shopping center with more than 1000 people inside."
"The mall is on fire, Firefighters are trying to put out the fire, and I can't imagine the number of victims, "said President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Rescue operations are underway, 9 People were injured Kiriro Tymoshenko, deputy director of the presidential palace, said he was in a serious condition.
Kremenchuk, a 217,000 industrial city before Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24, was located along the Dnipro River in the Poltava region and was home to Ukraine's largest oil refinery.
There is no immediate comment from Russia denying the intentional targeting of civilians.
"We need more weapons to protect our people. We need missile defense," he said.
Interior Ministry adviser Vadim Denisenko said Russia could have had three motives for the attack.
"The first is definitely to panic, the second is to destroy the infrastructure, and the third is to raise stakes and put the civilized West back into discussion. " He said.
Russia, which occupied Severodonetsk, the eastern frontline city of Ukraine on the weekend after a week of assault, recently intensified its missile attacks on targets across Ukraine.
The missile crashed into a block of apartments on Sunday, landing near a kindergarten in the Ukrainian capital, killing one and injuring several more.
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