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2022-06-28 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
At least 13 dead after Russian missiles strike Ukrainian mall crowded with 1,000 shoppers
[NYPOST] Ukrainian officials said Monday that 13 civilians were confirmed dead and scores more were missing following a Russian missile attack on a crowded shopping center in the Poltava Oblast that was filled with some 1,000 people.

Footage shared by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky from the scene in the city of Kremenchuk showed orange flames and clouds of thick black smoke pouring out of the strip mall, with onlookers and firefighters standing outside.

"The invaders hit the mall where there were more than 1,000 civilians ... the number of victims cannot even be imagined," Ukraine’s leader wrote on social media. "(It) posed no danger to the Russian army, not a single strategic value."

Zelensky added: "Russia continues to take out its impotence on ordinary citizens. Hoping for common sense and humanity on Russia’s part is useless."

Regional governor Dmytro Lunin said Monday that, in addition to the 13 known dead, more than 50 others were found maimed as rescue crews continued to crawl through the rubble.

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
G7 leaders condemn Russia for its strike on the shopping center in Kremenchug

[REGNUM] The leaders of the G7 countries (USA, UK, Germany, Italy, Canada, France, Japan) condemned the alleged Russian military missile attack on the Amstor shopping center in the Ukrainian city of Kremenchug. This is stated in the joint statement of the G7.

"We, the leaders of the G7, condemn the heinous attack on a shopping mall in Kremenchuk."

from a joint statement by the leaders of the G7 countries
In the statement, the responsibility for what happened in the Poltava region was traditionally assigned to Russia.

Earlier, the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, said that the fire in the Kremenchug Amstor shopping center "with 1,000 visitors" allegedly arose as a result of a deliberate missile attack by the Russian military, which is a "terrorist act."

According to the head of the Poltava Regional Military Administration Dmitry Lunin , at least 13 people died as a result of the fire in the shopping center. First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Dmitry Polyansky called the incident reminiscent of a provocation organized by the Kiev regime in Bucha.

A fake about a strike on a shopping center with 1,000 visitors in Kremenchug was exposed

[REGNUM] The information that the Russian military attacked the Amstor shopping center (the city of Kremenchug, Ukraine), which was full of visitors, is false, the telegram channel “War against fakes” reports on June 27.

The international media quickly picked up the news, according to which "a Russian missile hit the shopping center with 1,000 visitors" . This is how they reacted to information disseminated on June 27 by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky , who stated that there were about a thousand civilians in the shopping center at the time of the strike.

The Ukrainian authorities cite official data: preliminary, two people were killed, 20 were injured. The information was disseminated by the Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Kyrylo Tymoshenko .

An analysis of messages on the Internet shows that the shopping center was probably not working. This is evidenced by the almost empty parking lot and attendance data. A large number of military men with weapons next to the building is also typical. There is information that equipment repaired at Dormash, the Kremenchug plant of road machines, was stored on the territory of the shopping center.

Amstor shopping center is located next to Dormash, 90 meters away. In one of the videos, it seems to people that the rocket hit the plant, judging by their comments. Since 2014, the plant has been repairing equipment for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. A railway line from the Kremenchug station leads to Dormash.

The Kremenchug station is one of the most important railway junctions in Ukraine, connecting the central and western parts of the country. In addition, in Kremenchug there is a locomotive depot (TC-6) and the Kremenchug power supply distance (EC-8). The station is actively used to supply fuel from the Kremenchug refinery for the needs of the Ukrainian army.

In the coming days, a NATO summit will be held, during which Zelensky will ask for military assistance from the Western "big brother". Now the Ukrainian authorities are preparing the ground to make a new Bucha out of Amstor, the authors of the publication note.

Polyansky compared the footage of the fire in Kremenchuk with the provocation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Bucha

[RIA Novosti] Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN, suggested that "the attack on the shopping center in Kremenchug" was another Ukrainian provocation. He wrote about this on Twitter.

“It looks like we are dealing with a new Bucha-style provocation. We have to wait what our Ministry of Defense says, but there are already too many conspicuous inconsistencies. This is exactly what the Kyiv regime needs to keep the focus on Ukraine before the NATO summit,” - said the deputy chairman.

On Monday, footage of a shopping center in Kremenchug engulfed in flames appeared on social networks.

Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense called all photographs and videos published by the Kiev regime, allegedly testifying to crimes in Bucha , another provocation. As noted in the department, during the time this settlement was under the control of the Russian army, not a single local resident suffered from any violent actions.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov

The names of those killed in the provocation in Bucha have not yet been presented, Lavrov said.

They also stressed that all units completely left Bucha on March 30, and exits from the city in the northern direction were not blocked, while the southern outskirts, including residential areas, were fired around the clock by Ukrainian troops from large-caliber artillery, tanks and multiple launch rocket systems.
Posted by Fred 2022-06-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ]  Top
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#1 How this story will turn out is precisely the reason why I won't source news about this war just from western and western sponsored Ukrainian sources.

The line of bullshit coming from the Ukrainians about this incident is very thick.
Posted by badanov 2022-06-28 04:43||   2022-06-28 04:43|| Front Page Top

#2 And the line of bullshit from the Russians is very fluid and odiferous.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-06-28 06:08||   2022-06-28 06:08|| Front Page Top

#3 What no baby formula factory?
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-06-28 07:39||   2022-06-28 07:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Death toll from 'war crime' Russian bombing of packed Ukrainian mall rises to at least 18 as desperate families search for missing loved ones - but rescuers warn of little hope for more survivors
Posted by Skidmark 2022-06-28 07:58||   2022-06-28 07:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Skid, those photos certainly dispute the "analysis" linked in another article. I wonder if anyone in Russia (except those Putin can absolutely trust) has seen them.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-06-28 09:34||   2022-06-28 09:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Skid, those photos certainly dispute the "analysis" linked in another article. I wonder if anyone in Russia (except those Putin can absolutely trust) has seen them.

The Mail article said the nearby factory was hit. It was the target.
Posted by badanov 2022-06-28 09:56||   2022-06-28 09:56|| Front Page Top

#7 More lies and bullshit from the prime propaganda outlet.

A much better description is at moonofalabama.org. It includes Ukrainian television's video of the incident on the factory grounds, photos showing the direct hit hit on the enormous munitions factory and Google maos' satellite imagery showing the huge factory as immediately adjacent to the tiny mall.
Posted by Chesney Throger2743 2022-06-28 11:24||   2022-06-28 11:24|| Front Page Top

#8 And the Ukrainians' bullshit isn't convincing anyone in the Biden Administration any longer.

Biden officials privately doubt that Ukraine can win back all of its territory
By Natasha Bertrand, CNN

(CNN)White House officials are losing confidence that Ukraine will ever be able to take back all of the land it has lost to Russia over the past four months of war, US officials told CNN, even with the heavier and more sophisticated weaponry the US and its allies plan to send.

Advisers to President Joe Biden have begun debating internally how and whether Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should shift his definition of a Ukrainian "victory" -- adjusting for the possibility that his country has shrunk irreversibly.

"Mission Accomplished!
Leading from behind!
Peace With Honor!
Adding by Subtracting!
Gimme Money!
Ten Percent For The Big Guy!"



Posted by Chesney Throger2743 2022-06-28 11:32||   2022-06-28 11:32|| Front Page Top

#9 A lot of people here would dig seeing Russia lose. I don't think anyone here wants civilians to suffer.

Nobody here has any reason to lie.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-28 11:35||   2022-06-28 11:35|| Front Page Top

#10 Of course I want Putin to lose. I want him dead in a ditch and Russia joining the civilized world for a change.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-06-28 11:40||   2022-06-28 11:40|| Front Page Top

#11 The Russians did not strike a mall. They hit and destroyed an adjacent, enormous machining plant that is ideal for repairing or preparing heavy weaponry and that sits at a central distribution point in Ukraine.

This is another monstrous lie designed to keep up the con that Ukraine has not lost the war. Even little Natasha Bertrand's Pentagon and CIA whisperers are not pushing this stupid, obvious lie.
Posted by Chomoting Tingle6957 2022-06-28 11:51||   2022-06-28 11:51|| Front Page Top

#12 Just "next door" to the "baby milk factory." Gotcha.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-28 11:52||   2022-06-28 11:52|| Front Page Top

#13 
Posted by Chomoting Tingle6957 2022-06-28 11:53||   2022-06-28 11:53|| Front Page Top

#14 Thanks M2...
Posted by badanov 2022-06-28 11:55||   2022-06-28 11:55|| Front Page Top

#15 Sorry. Can't find my rubber nose. And I don't use gurgle. Calling me a clown certainly brings me around to you point of view.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-28 11:56||   2022-06-28 11:56|| Front Page Top

#16 
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-06-28 12:51||   2022-06-28 12:51|| Front Page Top

#17 
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-06-28 12:54||   2022-06-28 12:54|| Front Page Top

#18 Makes me think of the shopping center strike from some 8 weeks ago which was roundly rebuffed.

Way back when, friends and I would go to Haunted Houses around Halloween. Not crummy one, but put together by people who *Love* their job, multi story refitted buildings. Anyways, one had a stunt where an employee would run out and attack another employee, like a ticket taker. Maybe shift was up, don't know. Thing is, it sure set the mood.

I think of that everytime I read a story about a VIP visiting Kyeeeev and there are 'explosions' and the VIP gets to play serpentine.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-06-28 13:43||   2022-06-28 13:43|| Front Page Top

#19 Of course I want Putin to lose. I want him dead in a ditch and Russia joining the civilized world for a change.

Civilized? You mean like the Biden family laundering money through a Ukrainian energy company? That kind of civilized? The kind of world where politicians rig elections, promote critical race theory and sexual confusion, take bribes from Chinese communists and allow their countries to be flooded with fentanyl? You must really hate Russia if that's what you want for them.

Nobody here is trying to tell you that Putin is a good guy. But I will assert that Biden is just as bad.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-06-28 14:48||   2022-06-28 14:48|| Front Page Top

#20 I will also assert that this war is just as much if not more Biden's fault than it is Putin's.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-06-28 14:50||   2022-06-28 14:50|| Front Page Top

#21 Our beloved president is a different kind of bad than their beloved president. Not a better kind of bad, just different.

Abu Uluque, Vladimir Putin is supposed to be super clever after all those years moving up the ranks in the KGB. Falling for the nonsense coming out of Joe Biden’s mouth is a rookie mistake.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-06-28 14:59||   2022-06-28 14:59|| Front Page Top

#22 Falling for the nonsense coming out of Joe Biden’s mouth is a rookie mistake.

I'm not sure I understand. Do you mean Biden's insistence on expanding NATO into Ukraine? Or, maybe, believing Biden when he said NATO wouldn't put nuclear armed cruise missiles on the Russian border with Ukraine? I don't think Putin believed that one.

After all these years I admit I still don't know much about Putin except that he is a ruthless dictator and that deliberately provoking him is not a good idea. But I do believe I know all I need to know about Biden.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-06-28 15:24||   2022-06-28 15:24|| Front Page Top

#23 Years of the Nuland / Vindman show must have been a factor in Vlad's decision loop. That was happening well before Bidet was prexident.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-28 17:19||   2022-06-28 17:19|| Front Page Top

#24  I'm not sure I understand. Do you mean Biden's insistence on expanding NATO

When he said that he wouldn’t be bothered if Russia went in, just before President Putin invaded.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-06-28 22:00||   2022-06-28 22:00|| Front Page Top

#25 Biden said that!?!?
Posted by Jatle Sinatra9653 2022-06-28 22:16||   2022-06-28 22:16|| Front Page Top

#26 Seriously, Biden said that?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-06-28 22:26||   2022-06-28 22:26|| Front Page Top

#27 Something to that effect, yes. I don’t recall his exact words.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-06-28 22:53||   2022-06-28 22:53|| Front Page Top

#28 To be fair, the sense wasn’t that Russia should conquer the whole country, but just nibble a bit along the edges. So one can imagine President Putin’s shock when it all blew up in his face.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-06-28 22:55||   2022-06-28 22:55|| Front Page Top

#29 Yeah, well, even I know that whenever Biden speaks he's either lying or blithering absolute nonsense.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-06-28 23:06||   2022-06-28 23:06|| Front Page Top

#30 I agree with Badanov.

It's been non-stop rubbish propaganda from the Ukrainians (and helped along by the media).

By the way, the Ukrainians would not have happened to have an artillery battery near this mall now, would they?
Posted by DooDahMan 2022-06-28 23:33||   2022-06-28 23:33|| Front Page Top

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