(Kyiv) At least one person was killed in Kyiv in a strike by the Russian army on a shopping center on Sunday evening, announced the mayor of the Ukrainian capital.
Posted at 8:58 p.m.
Updated at 9:42 p.m.
“One dead so far,” mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on Telegram.
A huge explosion shook the city during the attack and fires were visible in the rubble of the Retroville shopping center, according to AFP journalists.
“Enemy fire” caused a fire on several floors of the shopping center located in the Podilsky district, in the northwest of the city, and set fire to several vehicles, for their part specified the emergency services on Facebook .
They released footage from a surveillance camera, showing a huge explosion and a mushroom-shaped cloud, followed by a series of smaller blasts.
Firefighters extracted at least one man from the building’s rubble, covered in dust, according to other video images released by the emergency services.
PHOTO PROVIDED BY UKRAINE’S EMERGENCY MINISTRY VIA REUTERS
Firefighters searching through the rubble of the mall.
Soldiers cordoned off the site and ordered journalists to back off, citing a danger posed by unexploded ordnance, without giving further details.
Residents living in a nearby apartment building, whose windows were blown out by the blast, said they had seen a mobile rocket launcher near the mall several days earlier.
Kyiv has been hit by a series of attacks in the past week, including one on an apartment building on Sunday that left five people injured.