DIRECT. War in Ukraine: UN Security Council meets on Tuesday to discuss civilian bombings

The essential

• A Russian missile hit a "busy" shopping center in Kremenchuk, central Ukraine: at least 16 people died, according to a provisional report.

  59 are injured.

  A strike widely condemned by the international community. 

• In response, Ukraine has called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on the latest Russian bombings against civilian targets in Ukraine, to be held this Tuesday at 7 p.m. GMT.

• G7 leaders, meeting in Germany, announced an embargo on Russian gold and pledged to provide indefinite support in the fightback against Russia. 

• They have also decided to help Ukraine financially with the proceeds of customs duties on Russian products.

  They also seek to cap the world price of Russian oil.

• The bombardments continue Lyssytchansk, twin city of that of Sievierodonetsk in the Donbass.

  At least 8 civilians were killed after shooting near a tank truck containing drinking water. 

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Attack on a shopping center: Macron denounces an "absolute horror"

The President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron denounced Monday an "absolute horror" after the missile strike on a shopping center in Kremenchuk in Ukraine and called on the Russian people to "see the truth" in the face, in a tweet accompanied by a video of the building engulfed in flames.

“We share the pain of the families of the victims.

And anger at such ignominy, ”added the French president, who is taking part in a G7 summit in Germany, in a message broadcast in Russian and Ukrainian.

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Emergency meeting this Tuesday of the UN Security Council

Ukraine has called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on the latest Russian bombings against civilian targets in Ukraine, to be held this Tuesday at 7 p.m. GMT, it was learned on Monday from the Albanian presidency of the highest UN body.

The firing of a missile on Monday at a shopping center in Kremenchuk, in central Ukraine, "will be the main subject" of this session, said a spokesman for the Albanian diplomatic mission.

The “missile fire on kyiv” on Sunday, which hit a residential complex near the center of the Ukrainian capital, will also be discussed during the meeting, the same source said.

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