<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1656343643369,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"0000017b-1b9b-da05-a97b-3bfb53a10000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1656343643369,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"0000017b-1b9b-da05-a97b-3bfb53a10000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
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At least 10 people were killed and more than 40 others were injured after rocket fire hit the one-story building that houses the shopping center. Authorities are still trying to extinguish the fire, according to Dmytro Lunin, head of Ukraine’s Poltava region. The number of victims from the strike, which took place in Kremenchuk, a city in the Poltava region on the banks of the Dnieper River, is “impossible to imagine,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a translation provided by NBC News.
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“The occupiers fired rockets at the mall, where there were more than a thousand civilians,” Zelensky said in a post on the Telegram messaging app.
The site of the attack did not present any danger or strategic value for the Russian army as “Russia continues to take out its powerlessness on ordinary citizens,” Zelensky said. Vitalii Maletskyi, the mayor of Kremenchuk, also said the missile strike hit “a very crowded place, which is 100% not relevant to the hostilities,” in a Facebook post.
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The attack on the Kremenchuk shopping center is Russia’s latest attack on Ukraine, four months after Russia began its invasion. Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, was struck with Russian missiles on Sunday morning in the city’s Shevchenkivskyi district, the first strike on the city in roughly three weeks.
On Friday, Ukraine ordered the remainder of its troops to withdraw from Severodonetsk, a key eastern city, after weeks of Russian bombardment. The city that had approximately 100,000 people before the war served as an administrative center for the Luhansk region and had been a focal point in the war for weeks.
