After the attack on the Kremenchuk shopping center: “No one can understand why Russia has done this against a civilian target”

It still smells of burning plastic around Amstor, the shopping center in Kremenchuk, in central Ukraine, which was attacked by two Russian missiles on Monday.

Liliana Piren, about to turn 22, cannot hold back her tears as she lays down the flowers she has brought to pay tribute to the twenty people who died.

She also brings toys for the children who fell victim to the rage of Vladimir Putin's forces.

“I didn't know anyone who was inside, but I couldn't stay home.

I was too sad.

No one can understand why they have done this against a civilian target, there were no military here,” she says.

Sometimes when she can't talk anymore, her boyfriend hugs her.

Ukrainian rescue teams continue to search Tuesday for survivors in the rubble of the shopping mall, where authorities say at least 18 people have been killed and 59 others injured after a Russian missile attack.

The death toll may be higher.

The deputy head of the office of the Ukrainian president, Kirill Tymoshenko, already raises it to “more than 20″.

According to the testimonies of the relatives of the disappeared, who await news at a base that the rescue teams have established across the street, there could still be more than 40 people among the remains of the destroyed building.

Liliana Piren deposits flowers this Tuesday in the Kremenchuk shopping center attacked yesterday by Russian troops. Luis Doncel

The attack occurred on Monday afternoon, in broad daylight, when "the occupants fired rockets at a shopping center, where there were more than 1,000 civilians," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky explained in a Telegram message. in which he accused Russia of attacking innocent citizens.

The European Union has condemned this Tuesday "in the strongest terms" what it considers "a war crime" committed by the Russian Army against civilians.

“This is yet another heinous act in a series of attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure by Russian forces.

The continuous bombing of civilians is reprehensible and totally unacceptable and constitutes a war crime," the office of the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, said in a statement.

Russia has denied civilians were targeted.

According to the Kremlin on Tuesday, the attack was launched against a warehouse of weapons that had been delivered by the United States and the European Union.

"The explosion of stored Western ammunition caused a fire in a shopping center that was not in operation and that was located next to the warehouse," Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said, according to the Russian news agency. interface.

However, Ukraine's Prosecutor General, Irina Venediktova, has denounced Russia's "systematic attack" on the country's "civilian infrastructure".

As she confirmed on Tuesday, another missile had also hit a nearby factory, which was closed and was not a military target.

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