<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1656422185966,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"0000017b-1b9b-da05-a97b-3bfb53a10000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1656422185966,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"0000017b-1b9b-da05-a97b-3bfb53a10000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ "div": "Brid_56422178", "obj": {"id":"27789","width":"16","height":"9","video":"1039995"} }); ","_id":"00000181-aa74-df08-a3b3-fa7db4230000","_type":"2f5a8339-a89a-3738-9cd2-3ddf0c8da574"}”>Video EmbedUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned a Russian missile strike on a shopping center in Ukraine on Monday, calling Russia “the largest terrorist organization in the world.”
The targeted shopping mall in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, was filled with thousands of people before air alarms warned them of the missiles. Many were able to get out, but several civilians remained inside the building, Zelensky said during a virtual address late Monday evening, according to the Hill.
“Only totally insane terrorists, who should have no place on Earth, can strike missiles at such an object,” Zelensky said. “And this is not an off-target missile strike. This is a calculated Russian strike — exactly at this shopping mall.”
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Zelensky urged the United States to recognize Russia “as a state that sponsors terrorism,” arguing everyone must know that working with Russia, including buying or transporting Russian oil and maintaining contacts with Russian banks, “means giving money to terrorists.”
“The Russian state has become the largest terrorist organization in the world,” he said. “And this is a fact. And this must be a legal fact.”
Doctors in Kyiv have left for Kremenchuk to provide medical assistance to those hurt in the shopping center attack, the Ukrainian president said. Denys Monastyrskyi, the country’s minister of internal affairs, is also in Kremenchuk to coordinate actions, Zelensky said.
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The shopping center attack, which Zelensky said resulted in 12 deaths and 24 people being wounded, did not offer strategic value to the Russian army, which “continues to take out its powerlessness on ordinary citizens,” he said in a post on the Telegram messaging app earlier Monday. Vitalii Maletskyi, the mayor of Kremenchuk, also said in a Facebook post that the missile strike on the center “is 100% not relevant to the hostilities.”
The attack on the Kremenchuk shopping center marks the latest act of Russian aggression in Ukraine. Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, was hit with Russian missiles on Sunday morning in the city’s Shevchenkivskyi district, the first strike on the city in roughly three weeks.
