People fear for loved ones a day after shopping centre in Ukrainian city hit by two Russian missiles
wenty-four hours after two Russian X-22 cruise missiles hit a crowded shopping centre in Kremenchuk, small plumes of black smoke could still be seen rising from the smoking ruins. Dozens of people who feared their loved ones had been inside the building when the deadly explosions ripped through it looked on in grim silence as a giant crane removed sections of the collapsed roof, exposing blackened debris and twisted metal underneath.
Mykola Lukash, from the Kremenchuk district prosecutor’s office, said members of his team had recovered dozens of body fragments. Every day, hundreds of people head to the mall in Kremenchuk to do their shopping or have a coffee and a chat with friends. The only difference between this and any other shopping centre around the world is that here an unpredictable war is raging, one capable of destroying lives in a matter of seconds, even in a place hundreds of miles from the frontline or in cities that have never been bombed before.
“Usually on Mondays I was forced to take my little daughter to work because the kindergarten was closed. But luckily yesterday I found someone to take care of her while I was working. Some of my colleagues didn’t make it. Someone will certainly still be there, under the rubble.”
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