• Ukraine’s president has called an attack on a shopping mall in the city of Kremenchuk by Russian warplanes “one of the most brazen terrorist acts in European history”.
• There are reports of other attacks in the country’s east that killed at least 12 civilians.
• The incident has been condemned by the United Nations and world leaders.

As the death toll grew to 13, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned Monday’s missile attack on a retail mall in the central city of Kremenchuk as a “brazen terrorist act.”

Zelensky said amid reports of two more attacks in the country’s east on Monday that killed at least 12 civilians in total, as officials there accused Moscow of intentionally targeting civilians.

“The Russian strike today on the shopping centre in Kremenchuk is one of the most brazen terrorist acts in European history,”  Zelensky stated in his evening Telegram broadcast.

“A peaceful town, an ordinary shopping centre — women, children, ordinary civilians inside.”

Earlier, Ukraine’s defence ministry said that the Kremenchuk attack was planned to happen during the mall’s busiest times in order to kill as many people as possible.

The incident has been condemned by the United Nations and world leaders.

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Sergiy Gaiday, the governor of the Lugansk region, said that at least eight civilians were killed by Russian rockets while getting water in the city of Lysychansk in eastern Ukraine on Monday. These people were out collecting water.

The chairman of Kharkiv’s regional administration, Oleg Synegubov, reported that a strike in the city killed four people and injured 19, including four children.

“The enemy is deliberately terrorising the civilian population,” he claimed in a Telegram message.

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