June 27, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news

Ukraine representatives have requested a meeting of the UN Security Council on Tuesday to discuss the latest Russian air strikes on the land of Ukraine which has resulted in several deaths of civilians and several dozens of injuries, Anatolii Zlenko, a spokesman for the UN Delegation Ukraine, to CNN Monday.

The UN nations for political and peace affairs will give direction to the council at the meeting, which is scheduled at 3 pm. Et, a UN spokesman told CNN.

A Russian air strike crashed into a crowded shopping center in Kremenchuk, Central Ukraine on Monday, burning the building and encouraging the worries of mass victims.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said after the strike that up to 1,000 people were in the mall before the air strike was announced

Dmytro Lunin, Head of the Military Administration of the Poltava Region, has revised the death toll from a Monday strike at a shopping center in Kremenchuk to 15, according to a post on his telegram channel.

Previously on that day, when renewing the number of deaths, Lunin indicated that it could continue to rise, tweeting, “It’s still too early to talk about the last number of dead people.”

G7 leaders and US President Joe Biden have condemned the attack. Ukraine officials said at least 58 people were injured.

In a Monday tweet, US President Joe Biden, who was in Germany attended the G7 Summit, condemning Russian missile attacks in a shopping center in the city of Kremenchana, wrote, “Russian attacks on civilians in a cruel shopping center. We stand in solidarity with Ukraine people. “