During the two Russian missiles slammed into the mall in Kremenchuk, southeast of Kyiv, Zelenskiy wrote on Telegram that more than 1000 people were inside the mall, and at least thirteen people were killed and fifty were injured, Ukrainian said. The rescues are trawled through mangled metal and debris for any survivors.

“This is not an accidental hit; this is a calculated Russian strike exactly onto this shopping centre,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an evening video address. He said the death count could rise.

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United Nations and Ukraine’s Western allies are condemned to them, and Russia has not commented on the strike. On the other hand, the deputy ambassador of the United Nations, Dmitry Polyanskiy, was accused by Ukraine of using the incident to gain sympathy for the June 28-30 summit of the Nato military alliance.