Russians fire missiles on crowded area in Kremenchuk, killing civilians
DENYS KARLOVSKYI - MONDAY, 27 JUNE 2022, 16:05
The Russians have launched missile strikes on a shopping centre in Kremenchuk, killing civilians.
Source: Vitalii Maletskyi, the mayor of Kremenchuk; Dmytro Lunin, the head of Poltava Oblast Military Administration; Emine Dzhaparova, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
Details: Firefighters, medics and police are working at the site of the missile strike. The number of casualties is being clarified by representatives of the military administration.
Dzhaparova reported that the missiles hit the Amstor shopping centre, 300 m from the railway station. According to her, there were a lot of people there buying food. A video shows thick black clouds of smoke rising from the store. Eyewitnesses in Kremenchuk reported heavy smoke at the site of the missile strike.
According to Maletskyi, the missiles hit a site that has nothing to do with "military action".
About an hour after the attack, the regional military administration confirmed that there had been explosions in Poltava, but denied that there were no hits by Russian missiles on the city.
The air-raid siren was sounded in Poltava Oblast around 15:40 and stopped at 16:05.
Sirens were also sounded in Donetsk, Sumy, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia and Odesa oblasts.
Background:
- The Russians repeatedly fired missiles at Kremenchuk and Poltava, causing civilian casualties.
- On Easter Sunday, 24 April, the Russian occupiers launched 9 cruise missiles at Kremenchuk and destroyed the oil refinery. On 12 May, the Russians once again fired missiles on the destroyed infrastructure of the Kremenchuk Oil Refinery.
- On 18 June, Russian missiles targeted the destroyed Kremenchuk Oil Refinery for the third time and also destroyed the thermal power plant nearby.
- The infrastructure of the Kremenchuk Oil Refinery has been destroyed. The government presumes that it will be impossible to reopen it before 2023. Because the Kremenchuk Oil Refinery was a key element of fuel delivery logistics for consumers, there is a fuel shortage and queues of cars have appeared at petrol stations, and the average price of gasoline has increased significantly.
