War Ukraine denounces a Russian missile attack on a shopping center "with more than a thousand civilians inside"
The president of
Ukraine
,
Volodimir Zelensky
, has obtained a commitment in the
war in Ukraine
of "unlimited support" from the G7, the club of the seven great powers and Western democracies, a group in which the United States is pushing to toughen - and specify - sanctions against
Russia
.
A commitment that received the response from Russia with the attack on a shopping center in Kremenchuk, in central
Ukraine
.
"So far, we know of 16 dead and 59 injured, 25 of them hospitalized. The information is being updated," said Sergei Kruk, head of the emergency services.
Volodimir Zelensky
denounced the attack as "one of the most brazen terrorist acts in European history."
update narration
6.00
Survivors of the mall bombed by Russia: "It was hell"
In an intensive care ward in central
Ukraine
, five people are crammed into a room, their wounds covered with bloody bandages.
A corpse lies on a stretcher outside, covered in a blanket.
These are the aftermath of a missile attack on a busy shopping mall in the city of
Kremenchuk
, southeast of
Kiev
, on Monday, an attack that one of the patients described as "hell".
According to Ukraine's emergency services, the attack has left at least 16 dead and 59 wounded.
"This is the sixth time the city has been bombed" since
Russia
invaded
Ukraine on February 24, said Oleksandr Kovalenko, deputy director of the surgery department at the
Kremenchuk
public hospital
.
"But never before has it affected so many people."
The hospital is treating 25 people injured in the attack, six of them in critical condition, he told Reuters.
Share on Twitter
05.55.
Russia is furious with Lisichansk and involves Belarus in the military campaign
The Russian Army is now focusing all its efforts on the siege of
Lisichansk
, the last Ukrainian stronghold in the
Lugansk
region , while involving
Belarus
more and more in the military campaign , according to the
Ukrainian
president ,
Volodimir Zelensky
.
"I want to address today the citizens of
Belarus
, the people, civilians and military. You are being dragged into the
war
(...). The Kremlin has decided everything for you. Your lives are worth nothing to them,"
Zelensky
said. in your daily video message.
Military actions are concentrated in
Donbas
and southern Ukraine, but Moscow continues to launch punitive attacks against other parts of the country, including the capital, Kiev.
In fact, a Russian missile hit a shopping center in the central Poltava region on Monday with a preliminary balance of eleven dead and several dozen injured, some of them seriously.
Following the Ukrainian withdrawal from Severodonetsk, the administrative center in Lugansk, Russian troops are advancing in forced marches towards Lisichansk, considered the gateway to neighboring Donetsk.
Share on Twitter
See full narration
Conforms to The Trust Project criteria
Know more
Ukraine
War Ukraine Russia
Russia
NATO
Vladimir Putin
Volodymyr Zelensky