Zelensky describes the attack on the Kremenchuk shopping center as one of the biggest attacks in Europe

MADRID, 28 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, has assured this Monday that the Russian attack perpetrated on a shopping center in the Ukrainian town of Kremenchuk and in which 16 people have died "is one of the most daring terrorist acts in European history".

"Today's Russian attack on a shopping center in Kremenchuk is one of the most daring terrorist acts in European history. A quiet city, an ordinary shopping center, inside: women, children, ordinary civilians. Before the announcement of the air alert there were about a thousand people", the Ukrainian president expressed in his daily message to the population.

Zelensky celebrated that most of the people managed to get out, although he lamented for the people who remained inside, such as workers and some visitors, at the same time that he maintained that the attack "is not a mistaken missile hit", but rather It was a premeditated hit.

According to the latest balance of the Ukrainian authorities, at least 16 people have lost their lives and 59 would have been injured, although the President of Ukraine has confessed that it is not yet possible to determine a total number of victims.

"All the wounded will receive all the necessary assistance: the doctors from kyiv have already gone to Kremenchuk. The Minister of the Interior will be present and will coordinate all the necessary actions," added Zelenski, who has shown his condolences to the families and friends of the injured. killed in "this terrible terrorist attack".

He also reminded the Ukrainian population that "whenever you hear the siren of the air alarm, go to the shelter", adding that "Russia will stop at nothing".

On the other hand, Zelenski has announced that he has asked the members of the G7 to recognize Russia as a state that "sponsors terrorism".

"Such a decision is clearly necessary, and it must be supported by the entire democratic world. I told this to the participants of the G7 summit, which took place in Germany," Zelensky said.

"The Russian state has become the largest terrorist organization in the world. And this is a fact. And this must be a legal fact. And everyone in the world should know that buying or transporting Russian oil, keeping in touch with banks Russians, paying taxes and duties to the Russian state is giving money to terrorists," he added.