Eleven killed in Russian missile strike on Ukraine shopping mallA Russian missile strike hit a crowded shopping centre in the central Ukrainian city of mermenchuk, killing at least 11 people and wounding 40, senior Ukrainian officials said.
The attack on Monday caused a huge fire and sent dark smoke billowing into the sky, footage circulated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy showed.
Dmytro Lunin, governor of the central Poltava region, wrote on Telegram that 11 people had now been confirmed killed in the double missile strike on the crowded shopping centre, adding that rescue workers would keep searching through the smouldering rubble, with more bodies likely to be found.
“It’s an act of terrorism against civilians,” he said separately, suggesting there was no military target nearby that Russia could have been aiming at.
Firefighters and soldiers were seen removing mangled pieces of metal as they searched for survivors.
“We don
’t understand how many people could be remaining under the rubble,” the regional rescue service chief said on television.
Zelenskyy said the shopping centre presented “no threat to the Russian army” and had “no strategic value”. He accused Russia of sabotaging “people’s attempts to live a normal life, which make the occupiers so angry”.
“Russia continues to take out its impotence on ordinary civilians. It is useless to hope for decency and humanity on its part,” he said.
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