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A police officer inspects a fragment of a Russian rocket stuck in a tree trunk about 300m from the epicentre of the Russian deadly rocket attack at a shopping centre in Kremenchuk.“There was a black tunnel, smoke, fire. I started to crawl. I saw the sun up there, and my brain was telling me I needed to save myself.”A police officer writes a report as a man wounded by the attack tells her about what happened.A blast wave threw him under a car. He couldn’t hear.
Kateryna Romashnya had just reached the mall on her walk home from work when the explosion threw her to the ground and blew out nearby windows.More than a dozen of people were killed in the attack.“It was terrifying,” she said, and began to cry.Ukrainian authorities said that in addition to the direct hit on the mall, a factory was struck, but denied it housed weapons, as Russian officials alleged.
Dr Kostyantyn Manayenkov, the chief surgeon at a Kremenchuk hospital treating the wounded, said nine people in intensive care were in “very bad condition”.Some bodies were so badly burned that they were unrecognisable, said Denis Monastyrsky, Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs, who visited the scene.Those inside the mall had had seven to 10 minutes to leave and get to safety when the warning sounded, he said.
The country's prosecutor general, Iryna Venediktova, emphasised that all Ukrainians must remain alert and expect a similar strike “every minute.”“Say something!” one man cried, trying to rouse them.
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