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Ukraine: World leaders condemn ‘abominable’ Russian attack on crowded shopping center

A Russian missile strike on a crowded shopping centre in the Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk, has  killed at least 16 people and wounding 59, the head of emergency services said earlier on Tuesday, sparking international outrage.

Some 1,000 civilians were estimated to be inside the busy centre at the time of the attack at around 15:50 (12:50 GMT), President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

The G7 and United Nations have both condemn the attacks that deliberately targeted civilian casualties.

Sergiy Kruk, the chief emergency service offer said the main task was to rescue  the affected , waste removal and elimination of fires  “As of now, we know of 16 dead and 59 wounded, 25 of them hospitalized. The information is being updated,” Kruk said on Twitter.

“All response groups are working in intense mode,” he said. “The work will go on around the clock.” And no alert should be ignored” he added.

 The leaders of the G7 group of richest nations – who are meeting in Germany – condemned the attack as “abominable”.

“Indiscriminate attacks on innocent civilians constitute a war crime,” they said in a joint statement.

Russia has been blamed for the attack, and there are fears the death toll will continue to rise. In addition to strongly condemning the attack, a joint statement issued by the Western leaders vowed to continue supporting Ukraine against Russian aggression.

“We shall Continue to provide financial, humanitarian as well as military support for Ukraine, for as long as it takes,” they said.

Pictures online showed the building engulfed in flames and thick black smoke billowing into the sky.

The local governor Dmytro Lunin also tweeted saying that the attack was another war crime against the Russians.

“A crime against humanity. This is an obvious and cynical act of terror against the civilian population,” the local governor Dmytro Lunin wrote on twitter, also calling it a ‘war crime’,” Lunin said.

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