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At least 18 dead after rockets hit Kremenchuk shopping center
KREMENCHUK, Ukraine (AP) — Rescuers are searching through the charred rubble of a shopping mall for more victims of a Russian missile strike that has killed at least 18 and wounded scores of others in a Ukrainian city.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the Monday afternoon strike “one of the most daring terrorist attacks in European history.” He said some 1,000 people were inside the mall at the time.
The regional governor said at least 18 people were killed and emergency services reported more than 60 wounded. The U.N. Security Council scheduled an emergency meeting Tuesday to discuss the attack.
The attack coincided with Russia’s all-out assault on the last Ukrainian stronghold in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk province. Russian forces also pummeled other Ukrainian cities.
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