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A fire must have broken out after the attack.

– The number of victims is impossible to imagine, writes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on cable.

In the post, the Ukrainian president shared a video of what he claimed was the attack. The post was shared at 16.40 on Monday night.

Ukrainian authorities have confirmed that at least two people were killed and 20 others injured in the attack on the mall, writes BBC.

Pictures and videos circulating on social media show fire and smoke rising from all over the mall, with fire trucks parked nearby. The video appears to have been circulated by Zelensky, but has not yet been independently confirmed.

Oliver Carroll writes, The Economist’s reporter Twitter About the “horror scenes,” it quoted a man speaking on the phone who said that people were in the building and that the walls were starting to fall off.

Carol's Twitter post
Photo: Twitter screenshot

Now the locals are starting firefighting work.

Krementsjuk is located in the Poltava province, on the banks of the Dnipro River. The city has a population of about 200,000 people.

This is not the first time that the city has been bombed by Russian missiles. Earlier in the war, Russian missiles hit the Kremenzhok oil refinery and other infrastructure facilities. BBC writes.

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