• This is the aftermath of a Monday missile attack that one of the victims called “hell” on a crowded mall in the city of Kremenchuk, southeast of Kiev.
• Emergency agencies in Ukraine report that the strike has left at least 16 persons dead and 59 injured.
• Before the invasion, there were 217,000 people living in the city.

Five patients are jammed into a room in an intensive care unit in the centre of Ukraine, their wounds tied in bloody bandages. Outside, a dead body is draped in a blanket and placed on a stretcher.

This is the aftermath of a Monday missile attack that one of the victims called “hell” on a crowded mall in the city of Kremenchuk, southeast of Kiev.

Emergency agencies in Ukraine report that the strike has left at least 16 persons dead and 59 injured.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, “this is the sixth time the city has been bombarded,” claimed Oleksandr Kovalenko, the deputy director of the surgery department at Kremenchuk’s state hospital. But this time, it had a similar impact on as many people.

According to him, Reuters, the hospital is caring for 25 victims of the incident, six of whom are in severe condition.

The walkout sparked a widespread outrage, and leaders of the Group of Seven major democracies who were meeting in Germany for a summit denounced it as “abominable.”

In a televised speech that evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy declared, “This is not an accidental hit; this is a deliberate Russian strike.” The death toll might increase, he warned.

At the time of the strike, he calculated that there were about 1,000 people inside the mall. Before the invasion, there were 217,000 people living in the city.

At a hotel close to the mall, people waited up to register the names of the missing. According to the prosecutor general’s office in Ukraine, more than 40 people have been reported missing.

Rescue personnel kept searching amid the debris for survivors.

Ludmyla Mykhailets, 43, a patient in the hospital’s general department, claimed the explosion catapulted her into the air as she and her husband Mykola were shopping at an electronics store.

“My body was pelted with splinters as I flew head first. The entire area was crumbling. I then fell to the ground, although I’m not sure if I was awake or not “She added that she had split her skull open and fractured her arm.

Mykola, 45, who had a bandage covering his head, continued, “It was awful.

A small group of mall employees were relieved and filled with fear and anguish as they stood outside the hospital.

They had moved to a nearby basement after hearing an air-raid siren when the missiles hit, according to Roman, 28, who wished to go by just one name.

Many more, he continued, had remained indoors since three days prior, the mall’s management had permitted stores to stay open in the event of air raid sirens.

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