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Russia Strikes Mall

A missile strike hits Ukrainian Mall that killed 18 civilians and wounded dozens

Many 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.

Another Election!

Israel is now preparing for their fifth election in 3.5 years, as Lapid becomes the interim PM

Israeli Foreign Minister, Yair Lapid, is now Israel's Prime Minister after Israel's parliament had voted to dissolve and set up another election for November 1.

Yair Lapid had worked along with former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to form the "change government," who overturned Benjamin Netanyahu last year. Their coalition government was the most diversified in Israel's history; it united eight parties from the left, center, right and also for the first time, an Arab Islamist party. Their common goal was to kick out of power then Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

Their government had come to an end after one year, mainly because of all the infighting, the resistance from Netanyahu's alliance in parliament, and several key people leaving Bennett's right wing allies who had accused him of leaving his core ideas.

Israel's parliament had officially decided to vote to dissolve itself after months of political crises and that prompted the country's fifth election in three and a half years.

Yair Lapid decided not to speak publicly after the vote had taken place but rather he visited Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial. He said, "Immediately after the vote, I went to Yad Vashem to promise my father that I will always keep Israel strong, able to defend itself and ensure peace for its children."

Yair Lapid is not preparing to face a refreshed Benjamin Netanyahu who is now looking to take back his position as Israel's Prime Minister. Bennett has announced that he will not be running in the upcoming elections.

Benjamin Natanyahu lashed out at the outgoing government and he is urging Israelies to hand him a victory this coming November. He said as he addressed parliament, "They promised change, they spoke about healing, they tried an experiment, and the experiment failed. We are the only alternative: a strong, stable, responsible nationalist government."

In three separate TV polls, it shows that the two rival politicians will likely remain in a standstill, as they were in the last four elections, with neither one of them receiving enough votes to win a 61 seat majority in Israel's 120 seat parliament.

But Benjamin

Netanyahu's bloc appears to be in a better situation than it was in 2021.

United States President Joe Biden congratulated Yair Lapid on his role as Israel's interim Prime Minister. President Biden said, "Congratulations to Yair Lapid, Israel's new Prime Minister, and thank you to Alternate Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for your friendship over the past year. I look forward to seeing you both in July to celebrate the unbreakable United States, Israel partnership."

President Joe Biden is expected to visit Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Saudi Arabia next month.