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Scenes of Horror as Putin Hits Mall With ‘1,000 People’ Inside
The Daily Beast via Yahoo ^ | June 27th, 2022 | Shannon Vavra

Posted on 06/27/2022 12:08:01 PM PDT by Mariner

Russia fired a series of rockets at a shopping center in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, on Monday, raising alarm bells that Russia is stepping up its attacks on civilian structures regardless of the loss of life.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday there were more than a thousand civilians inside the shopping mall and the casualties to come might bring even more shock and horror to Ukrainian people already confronting so much death and destruction as Russia has been waging war in Ukraine for 124 days.

“The number of victims is impossible to imagine,” Zelensky said on Telegram. “The mall is on fire, rescuers are fighting the fire.”

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To: Magnum44
What makes you think every school, hospital, and church, and shopping mall is a legitimate military target?

What makes you think that Ukraine can use every school, hospital, and church, and shopping mall as a fire base? The Ukraine's use civilians as human shields, that has been more then shown at this point.
21 posted on 06/27/2022 12:23:10 PM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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To: Magnum44

All I know is that it sucks to be them. If true, they were at the wrong place at the wrong time. As long as American boots are not the on the ground, I’m good. American liberals woke clowns? I hope they get hit by a thousand missiles..


22 posted on 06/27/2022 12:23:57 PM PDT by max americana (Fired leftards at work since 2008 at every election just to see them cry. I hate them all.)
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To: JoSixChip

Uh, no it really hasn’t, despite all the accusations from Putin’s cheerleading squad.


23 posted on 06/27/2022 12:25:16 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Mariner

No military strategist wastes expensive missiles on random mall attacks. Something was there, or they had intelligence something was there.

I read recently that Russia supposedly discovered a command center for the hundreds of CIA operatives (now admitted by NY Times and WaPo) working in Ukraine. The CIA can’t operate from a government building with the the letters “CIA” on it. Perhaps they just might choose an abandoned shopping mall close to the Donbas?


24 posted on 06/27/2022 12:26:36 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: max americana

So make a false claim then say, get called on it, then say you don’t really care anyway. Nice.


25 posted on 06/27/2022 12:26:52 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Mariner

I’ve read 10 or 11 dead, which is less kills that Chicago has on a Saturday night.


26 posted on 06/27/2022 12:28:10 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: Magnum44

Pull your head out of your ass. Ukraine has and is using their own population as human shields. Russia has noting to gain by killing civilians.


27 posted on 06/27/2022 12:28:18 PM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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To: Mariner

Photos from the scene show armed Ukrainian military was there.


28 posted on 06/27/2022 12:29:06 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Mariner

Nope

Wait for facts
Ps: they wont come from UKE sources


29 posted on 06/27/2022 12:29:16 PM PDT by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: BenLurkin

That was my initial impression. Putin hit it?

When I read things like that, I tend to disregard it as a form of propaganda. I don’t dispute that the Russians fired on it, I am not there, don’t know, and given my feelings about Ukraine and its allies lately, I care less than I might or should.

But weirdly personalizing it in that way is unnecessary, and for them, I believe, counterproductive.


30 posted on 06/27/2022 12:29:17 PM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: JoSixChip

Yet they have killed 10’s of thousands. You pull your head out of my ass.


31 posted on 06/27/2022 12:29:52 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Monterrosa-24
My Donbas and former Lenin Pioneer wife wants Putin executed.

My Kiev-trained Ukrainian immigrant doctor says that NATO and the CIA should have never got involved in the Ukraine. Everyone should have simply agreed on neutrality for the country. He said once the Maidan coup happened, he knew it was only a matter of time before a war happened, so he got his elderly mother and father out.

They should get together with your wife.

32 posted on 06/27/2022 12:30:50 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Mariner

You do realize you’re on the same side as Biden, Soros, and the mainstream media, don’t you?

Do you believe that they’ve stopped lying?


33 posted on 06/27/2022 12:31:44 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: max americana
As long as American boots are not the on the ground, I’m good.
34 posted on 06/27/2022 12:32:31 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: max americana
As long as American boots are not the on the ground, I’m good.

I think the deep state admitted via their state-run media that there are hundreds of CIA and trainers working in Ukraine

35 posted on 06/27/2022 12:32:53 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1541435023181717504

Empty parking lot
Not in an urban setting
Uke troops casually strolling the scene
Yep…sure sounds like a mass casualty event, eh

Another day, another false claim of civilian casualties?

The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent - 4:32 PM · Jun 27, 2022
⚡️ Zelensky: ‘Russia strikes shopping center in Kremenchuk, while over thousand people inside.’

“The mall is on fire, firefighters are trying to extinguish the fire, the number of victims is impossible to imagine,” said President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Volodymyr Zelensky/Tgram
Embedded video

“The video show a burning shopping center which does not seem to have an urban surrounding. Some 20 civilians are hanging around and watch as the firefighters do their job. They show no panic or grief. The shopping center’s rather large parking space is empty except for some five cars which all seem to be undamaged. I see no bicycles.

If there were 1,000 people in the shopping center how did they get there? How did they plan to get home?”

“Another video from a different perspective also shows a large empty parking space with two soldiers strolling by in full battledress. They have helmets on, wear body armor and carry their weapons. They have large military backpacks. Some other soldiers who are hanging around in olive green clothing great them….”

“Kremenchuk is on the Dnieper, far from the front lines. Why were the soldiers at the burning shopping center. Was there something in there that was of military interest?”

“Satellite pictures show that the shopping center is right next to the large Kredmash machine plant. Was that the real target of the attack with the shopping center being an unintended casualty?”

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/06/newsbits-on-ukraine-lysichansk-cauldron-civilian-damage-reserve-troops-russian-default.html#more


36 posted on 06/27/2022 12:35:10 PM PDT by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: Mariner

I always make a point of shopping in a crowded mall in the middle of a war. Gotta have those Nikes and Levis.


37 posted on 06/27/2022 12:35:34 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Mount Athos

“The parking lot was almost completely empty”

Darn fine public transportation system!


38 posted on 06/27/2022 12:37:30 PM PDT by moovova
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To: toddausauras

And Biden


39 posted on 06/27/2022 12:37:43 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: PGR88

Me too and why the f do they stop prison riots


40 posted on 06/27/2022 12:38:59 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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