KREMENCHUK, Ukraine—Firefighters searched on Tuesday for survivors in the rubble of a Ukrainian shopping mall, where authorities said 36 people were still missing after a Russian missile strike that killed at least 18.
The attack, in the central city of Kremenchuk far from any frontline, drew a wave of global condemnation.
Ukraine claimed Moscow had killed civilians deliberately. Russia said it had struck an arms depot and claimed the mall was empty.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of deliberately targetting civilians in “one of the most defiant terrorist attacks in European history.”
Russia’s defence ministry said its missiles had struck an arms depot storing Western weapons, which exploded, causing the blaze that spread to the nearby mall. Kyiv said there was no military target in the area, including at a nearby factory that was also hit….