“BARBAROUS ATTACK”: POPE CONDEMNS UKRAINE SHOPPING CENTRE BOMBING

Wed 29 June 2022:

Pope Francis on Wednesday called the bombing of a crowded shopping centre in the city of Kremenchuk the latest in string of “barbarous attacks” against Ukraine.

Ukraine said at least 18 people were killed and about 60 injured on Monday by a Russian missile strike. Russia’s defence ministry said it had hit a legitimate military target in the city, and that the shopping centre was not in use.

UN to visit

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky called for the United Nations to visit the site of a missile strike on a shopping mall in the city of Kremenchuk, as he addressed the UN Security Council on Tuesday.

“I suggest the United Nations send either a special representative, or the secretary-general of the United Nations… so the UN could independently find out information and see that this indeed was a Russian missile strike,” Zelensky said of Monday’s attack, in which at least 18 people were killed.

Zelensky spoke after Monday’s missile strike set off a blaze inside the crowded shopping centre in Kremenchuk.

In addition to the 18 confirmed dead, dozens were injured and many are still missing, authorities have said.

The Russian army claimed Tuesday it had hit a nearby weapons depot with the explosion sparking the blaze at the shopping centre, which according to Moscow was “not operational” at the time.

Before Zelensky spoke, UN undersecretary-general for political and peacebuilding affairs Rosemary DiCarlo told the Security Council that the UN has now recorded more than 10,600 civilian casulaties in Ukraine, including 4,731 deaths. She said the true toll was “considerably higher.”

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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