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His Grace Magazine!
June 2022
Russia Strikes Mall
A missile strike hits Ukrainian Mall that killed 18 civilians and wounded dozens
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any rescuers in Ukraine have been searching through all the rubble of a shopping mall as they continue to look for more people who were victims of a Russian missile strike that killed around 18 people. There were at least 60 others who needed medical help and 25 of those people needed to be hospitalized. Ukraine and the Western leaders are calling this attack a war crime and a terrorist attack. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called it, "one of the most daring terrorist attacks in European history." He also said more than 1,000 afternoon shoppers and workers were inside the mall in the city of Kremenchuk at the time of the Russian attack on this civilian target. Western leaders who are meeting at the G-7 Summit in Germany has condemned Russia's aggression and violations of human rights. The G-7 leaders
said, "Indiscriminate attacks on innocent civilians constitute a war crime." President of France, Emmanuel Macron, said he is declaring that Monday's attack on the mall was "a new war crime." He also said, "Russia cannot and should not win the war in Ukraine." The missile strike came as a bombardment of Russian missiles were striking all over the Ukraine, including the
capital of Kyiv. A British lawyer, Wayne Jordash, is helping the Ukraine as they investigate war crimes. He said that there appears to be no military targets near the mall that could even be used as a excuse for the mall attack, but their investigation is moving forward. He also said that a factory nearby was also struck by missiles. Ukrainian prosecutor general, Iryna Venediktova, said that
the missile attack was one of Russia's "crimes against humanity." Saying that Moscow has been "systematically shelling civilian infrastructure with the aim to scare people, to kill people, to bring terror to our cities and villages." The Russian brutal invasion is designed to make the Ukraine to surrender its territory and to recognize Russia's sovereignty over Crimea, which Moscow took from the Ukraine back in 2014 under President Obama. The United States senators from both parties are increasingly frustrated over President Biden's delay in delivering global food, aid funding that was already included into the Ukraine bill, that was passed by Congress this past spring. Congress passed the $40 billion emergency aid measure in early May to help countries that have been hurt by the Russian invasion.
