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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy explained Monday that Russian airstrikes have hit a crowded mall, leaving a quantity of victims "extremely hard to imagine." 

The incident took place in Kremenchuk and video shared on Zelenskyy’s Telegram site showed a huge hearth raging at the site. 

"The occupiers fired rockets at the mall, in which there ended up far more than a thousand civilians," Zelenskyy wrote. "The shopping mall is on fire, rescuers are preventing the hearth, the variety of victims is extremely hard to picture. 

"No hazard to the Russian military. No strategic value. Only the try of folks to stay a regular lifetime, which so angers the occupiers," Zelenskyy added. 

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Russian airstrikes hit a shopping mall in Kremenchuk on Monday, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Russian airstrikes hit a procuring shopping mall in Kremenchuk on Monday, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. (Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Telegram)

Kyryl Tymoshenko, the deputy head of the presidential office environment, wrote in a Telegram article that at minimum two persons had been useless and about 20 were being harm, of whom 9 were in major affliction. 

"Rescuers from all bordering areas are coming to the scene to place out the fireplace and work to reduce the consequences," he also reported. 

Earlier on Monday, Kremenchuk’s mayor explained men and women experienced been killed and wounded in an attack on a "quite crowded area" of no army relevance, but gave no facts of casualties. 

Rescuers work at a site of a shopping mall hit by a Russian missile strike in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, on Monday, June 27.

Rescuers operate at a internet site of a procuring mall hit by a Russian missile strike in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, on Monday, June 27. (Push service of the State Crisis Provider of Ukraine/Handout via REUTERS)

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"A rocket assault on Kremenchuk hit a really crowded region, which is 100% specific not to have any backlinks to the armed forces. There are killed and wounded persons," the city’s mayor, Vitaliy Maletskiy, wrote on Fb, with no supplying the number of victims. 

First responders work to put out a fire at the shopping mall.

First responders operate to place out a hearth at the procuring mall. (Governor of Poltava region Dmitry Lunin/Handout by means of REUTERS)

The attack arrives as Russia was mounting an all-out assault on the past Ukrainian stronghold in the japanese Luhansk region, "pouring hearth" on the town of Lysychansk from the ground and air, according to the neighborhood governor. 

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