On Monday, June 27, 2022, Russian occupation forces again fired on Kremenchuk in the Poltava region. The rocket strike the mall. The mayor of the city Vitaly Maletsky reported about it.
“The missile strike on Kremenchuk fell on a very crowded place, which has nothing to do with hostilities. There are dead and injured,” the statement said.
The Russians bombed the mall in the middle of the day, when there were more than a thousand people inside. A large-scale fire broke out at the site of the tragedy, it is already known 20 dead, and than 59 wounded, and 36 people are missing.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky reacted to the shelling of Kremenchuk and said that the occupiers were in a shopping center, where there were more than a thousand civilians.
“The mall is on fire, rescuers are fighting the fire, the number of victims can not even be imagined. No danger to the Russian army. No strategic value. Only an attempt by people to live a normal life, which angers the occupiers. Head of State.