Evidence contradicts Russian claims about Kremenchuk mall attack

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Witness accounts and expert analysis discredit Moscow’s claim fire spread from factory to empty mall

First-hand accounts from survivors and expert analysis have discredited Moscow’s account of the deadly missile strikes on a shopping mall in the Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk.

However, witness statements, information released by Ukrainian prosecutors and analysis by independent military experts point to three possible erroneous statements in that account – that the Ukrainian military was hiding weapons nearby, that the mall was not a target, and that nobody was using it.CCTV footage shows the first missile struck the mall at 3.51pm on Monday, and a second shortly afterwards hit a factory that Moscow contends was storing western munitions.

Satellite images show the factory is 500 metres from the mall. According to independent military experts and researchers from Molfar, a global open source intelligence community, the explosion there could not have provoked a fire strong enough to reach another building that far away.During a visit to the area between the mall and the factory, little to no damage to buildings or roads was observed, suggesting no spreading fire.

A phone message allegedly sent by the local management of the mall on 23 June, urging employees not to leave the shopping centre in case of air raid sirens.

 

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