The United Nations describes the missile attack on a shopping center in Kremenchuk as "deplorable"

MADRID, 27 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The United Nations has described as "deplorable" an attack carried out with a missile this Monday on a shopping center in the Ukrainian town of Kremenchuk, which has left at least eleven people dead, nine of them seriously.

Stéphane Dujarric, the spokesman for the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, pointed out at a press conference that, despite the fact that there is still a provisional balance of victims, "whatever the number, any attack that hits a shopping center is absolutely deplorable".

"Any kind of civilian infrastructure, which obviously includes shopping malls and civilians, should never be targeted," he said, adding that there have been "disturbing reports of a new wave of airstrikes and bombardments over the weekend," according to picked up by the United Nations news portal.

On the other hand, the United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has stressed on his official Twitter profile that "the world is horrified" at this attack, "the latest in a series of atrocities." "We will continue to support our Ukrainian partners and hold Russia, including those responsible for the atrocities, accountable," he added.

The British Foreign Minister, Liz Truss, has also reacted on her Twitter profile to the attack, assuring that it is "shocking and barbaric". "My thoughts are with everyone affected," she said.

The President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, has reported in his Telegram profile that there were more than a thousand people inside these facilities, which would anticipate a high number of victims. Likewise, he has released images of the establishment on fire and with intense smoke as an example of the destruction.

The president has regretted that Russia has again bombed an enclave without military interest of any kind, where hundreds of people tried to lead "a normal life" outside the conflict. "The number of victims is impossible to imagine," he added.

In addition, he has denounced that "the Russian attack against the Amstor shopping center in Kremenchuk has no other purpose than to terrorize the Ukrainians." "It is a civilian place where peaceful Ukrainians come to shop. It is becoming increasingly clear that Russia's goal is the genocide of Ukrainians!" he warned.

The Russian side, on the contrary, has indicated that there are "many inconsistencies" around the accident. Specifically, the deputy permanent representative of Russia to the UN, Dimitri Polianski, has remarked that pray is "a new Ukrainian provocation in the style of Bucha", according to the Russian news agency TASS.