kremenchuk ukraine two russian missiles slammed into a crowded shopping centre in the central ukrainian city of kremenchuk on monday killing at least 16 people and wounding 59 officials saidpresident volodymyr zelenskyy said more than 1000 people were in the mall at the time of the attack which witnesses said caused a huge fire and sent dark smoke billowing into the skyat least 16 people were killed and 59 injured ukraines emergency services saida reuters reporter saw the charred husk of a shopping complex with a cavedin roof firefighters and soldiers were pulling out mangled pieces of metal as they searched for survivorsthe mall was engulfed in a wall of flame which turned to thick clouds of smoke as firefighters worked to contain the blaze aerial photos showed the structure reduced to twisted metal with workers combing through growing piles of rubbleit is impossible to even imagine the number of victims its useless to hope for decency and humanity from russia zelenskyy wrote on the telegram messaging appkremenchuk an industrial city of 217000 before russias feb 24 invasion of ukraine lies on the dnipro river in the region of poltava and is the site of ukraines biggest oil refinerydmytro lunin governor of the central poltava region wrote on telegram that it was too soon to talk of a final death toll as rescuers continued to trawl through the rubbleits an act of terrorism against civilians he said separately suggesting there was no military target nearby that russia could have been aiming atat one point paramedics rushed into the building after rescuers called out 200 meaning they had found one or more bodies in the building reporters were later pushed away from the scene as air raid sirens wailed againukraine wants more weaponsas night began to fall rescuers brought lights and generators to continue the search worried family members some close to tears and with hands over their mouths lined up at a hotel across the street from the mall where rescue workers had set up a basekiril zhebolovsky 24 was looking for his friend ruslan 22 who worked at an electronics store and hadnt been heard from since the blast we sent him messages called but nothing he said he left his name and phone number with the rescue workers in case his friend is founda mall worker who gave his name as roman 28 told reuters that the malls management had only three days ago allowed shops to remain open during air raid sirensukraines air force command said the mall was hit by two longrange x22 missiles fired from tu22m3 bombers that flew from shaykovka airfield in russias kaluga regionrussias deputy ambassador to the united nations dmitry polyanskiy wrote on twitter without citing evidence that the attack was a ukrainian provocationexactly what kiev regime needs to keep focus of attention on ukraine before the nato summit he said referring to the alliances madrid gathering due to begin on tuesdaynato secretarygeneral jens stoltenberg said on monday that the upcoming