REPORTAGE – The special envoy of the Figaro was able to confirm on the spot that a missile had indeed destroyed a shopping center on Monday, and not an arms depot as Russia claims, leaving at least 18 dead and 59 injured.
Special envoy to Kremenchuk
Reduced to a heap of beams, sheets of sheet metal and wires hanging in bunches, the grotesque carcass of the immense shopping center of Kremenchouk spreads out in the blinding halo of the spotlights. It’s 1 a.m. on Tuesday and thousands of rescue workers and police are frantically busying themselves in the smoking ruins of what was, until recently, an ordinary little temple of consumerism; about ten stores under the banner of large groups – household appliances, cosmetics, food, animal feed, textiles, toys, jewellery. Nothing remains of this commercial activity except for product samples and boxes scattered in the mud. Everywhere, an acrid odor that seizes the throat.
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Around 3:40 p.m. on Monday, a missile hit the Amstor supermarket, according to local residents, killing 18 and injuring 59 according to a provisional official report released Tuesday during the day. Populated by 200,000 inhabitants before
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