The US condemns the Russian bombing of a shopping center in Ukraine: “The world is horrified”

A Russian missile fell on a shopping center on Monday, leaving at least ten dead and 40 injured in the center of Ukraineat a time when the Ukrainian president asked the leaders of the G7, meeting in Germany, “full, total support” to “end the war”

“This terrible attack shows once again the depths of cruelty and barbarism to which the Russian leader is willing to fall,” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson commented from the G7, adding that this type of aggression “only strengthens the determination” of Westerners to help Ukraine.

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According to the Ukrainian Air Force, the center commercial of Kremenchuk“highly frequented”, was attacked by missiles fired by Tu-22 long-range bombers from Russia’s Kursk region.

There are “ten dead and more than 40 people were injured. This is the current situation in Kremenchuk because of the missile strike,” said Dmytro Lunin, who heads the Poltava regional government, where the city of 220,000 inhabitants before the war is located.

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The attack was described on Monday as “totally execrable” by the UN spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric.

“The world is horrified” for the Russian attack on a shopping center in Ukraineassured for his part the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken.

Attacks in Kharkiv

On the other hand, new Russian bombardments against Kharkivin the northeast of Ukraineleft four dead and 19 wounded on Monday, including four children, according to local governor Oleg Sinegubov.

“The enemy deliberately terrorizes the civilian population”, wrote on Telegram.

From Germany, the G7 leaders pledged this Monday to support Ukraine “as long as it takes” and promised more sanctions against Russia.

The G7 will continue to “give financial, humanitarian, military and diplomatic support” to Ukraine “as long as it takes,” according to a common statement released at the summit at the Elmau castle in Bavaria.

Speaking via video conference at the meeting, the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky He urged to “do everything” possible to end the war before the end of the year and avoid “the harshness of the Ukrainian winter” that makes it more difficult to fight.

Zelenskywho will also participate in the NATO summit in Madrid on Tuesday, also asked the leaders of the seven richest democratic powers on the planet (the United States, Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan and Canada) “to intensify the sanctions against Russia.

Source: Elcomercio

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