Russian President Vladimir Putin denied on Wednesday that Russia was behind an attack on a shopping mall in central Kremenchuk, which left at least 18 people dead and dozens missing and injured.
“The Russian military is not attacking any civilian site. We do not need it. We have the ability to detect specific locations and, thanks to high-precision, long-range weapons, we are achieving our goals,” Putin said. , at a press conference after the meeting of the leaders of the “Five Caspian” – Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan – in Ashgabat.
More: In the Telegram channel, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported earlier that the Russian Aerospace Forces fired high-precision weapons at hangars with weapons and ammunition received from the United States and European countries, hitting a road factory.
“As a result of a high-precision strike, Western-made weapons and ammunition were gathered, which were gathered in the warehouse for further deployment to the Ukrainian troops in Donbas,” the ministry said.
The ministry blamed “the explosion of stored ammunition for Western weapons” for causing a fire in what it described as a “non-functional” neighboring shopping mall.
View of the explosion at the Kremenchuk shopping center, in Ukraine, in this static image taken from the brochure CCTV footage released on June 28. (zelenskiy_official / Instagram / Reuters)
Video from Kremenchuk shows a mall in the heart of the city destroyed by one of two rockets fired. Despite the air raid siren, dozens of people were still inside the mall when the rocket hit.
It is not clear which “road engine” factory the Russian Ministry of Defense refers to.
