New images of the explosion at a shopping mall in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, downplay Russia’s claims that the space accidentally caught fire after the anti-ship missile hit a nearby factory.
The material captured by security cameras shows the moment in which the back of the Amstor mall, in the center of the country, is hit by the AS-4 Kitchen missile, originally designed to attack US aircraft carriers.
The incident was reported this Monday around 4 pm local time.
The video emerged just hours after images from cameras in a nearby park showed the moment when a second missile hit a factory in Kredmash, located behind the shopping center. That attack destroyed four warehouses in the complex.
The images were released by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky.
The Russian defense ministry admitted being behind the attacks under the argument that the factory was being used to store Western weapons that would be transported to the Donbas area.
At least 18 people died in the onslaught, 21 remain missing and 59 were injured.
After exceeding the 100 days of war due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Army has advanced in the east of the country.
The militias of the self-proclaimed republic of Lugan sk (PRL) announced on Saturday that together with Russian troops they entered Lisichansk, the last Ukrainian stronghold in that region of eastern Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the United States and its allies continue to impose economic sanctions to Russia.
This Wednesday, the working group that the US created with its allies in Asia and Europe announced that it has frozen assets of Russian oligarchs valued at $21,000 millions since it started operating a hundred days ago .
According to the Treasury Department, the group has also blocked assets worth $300,000 million dollars in the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.
The Treasury also highlighted that the entity has confiscated vessels of Russian oligarchs that had been sanctioned by Washington or the European Union, such as, for example, the luxury yacht Tango, owned by the mul Russian tymillionaire Viktor Vekselberg who was seized in March on the island of Mallorca (Spain).
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