and Europe that it said was located near the mall, a claim dismissed by Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelenskyy has said Russia is responsible for "state terrorism" in Ukraine, with over 2,800 Russian missiles having hit its cities so far during the war.Russia has again been accused of war crimes after a Russian missile hit a shopping mall in Kremenchuk in central Ukraine.The strike killed at least 20 civilians shopping in the building and injured at least 59 people, with others still missing.
Ukraine's interior minister said yesterday that there were no survivors under the rubble because of the fire that spread through the building after the missile strike.
and Europe near the mall, a claim dismissed by Ukraine.
Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has described the situation the country faces as a "hybrid war," with the conflict in Ukraine having deep implications for the energy landscape in Europe, and Germany having to put plans in place in case its gas supplies — which are supplied via Nord Stream 1 from Russia to Germany — are cut by Moscow."We are in a time of war, in Ukraine people are dying, but we are in a hybrid war where the war is also being done [fought] by energy," Baerbock said.Before the war, there were plans for this supply to be doubled with a second pipeline, Nord Stream 2, despite misgivings about the pipeline from the United States, Ukraine and other countries in eastern Europe, particularly Poland.
A satellite image by Planet Labs shows the destruction of a shopping mall in Kremenchuk, Ukraine.On Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on the Telegram messaging platform that more than 1,000 people were inside at the time of the Russian rocket attack, according to an NBC News report."This is not an off-target missile strike, this is a calculated Russian strike — exactly at this shopping mall," Zelenskyy said in his evening address?G-7 leaders condemned the Russian missile strike and pledged to hold "Russian President Putin and those responsible" to account.