KYIV: A Russian missile strike on Monday hit a crowded mall in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk, killing and wounding an unconfirmed number of people, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

“The occupiers fired missiles at a shopping centre where there were over a thousand civilians… The number of victims is impossible to imagine,” Zelensky wrote on Telegram.

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The city’s mayor said earlier there was an unknown number of dead and wounded in the attack on the “very crowded place”.