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Intelligence has data on possible strikes against large shopping centers in frontline cities, in particular Kryvyi Rih. This was stated by Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the public organization "City Defense Council," after the Russians hit the Sonnaya Galereya shopping center twice.
Vilkul urged Kryvyi Rih residents to refrain from visiting large shopping centers or at least choose facilities whose owners have arranged shelters, and to go there immediately after an air-raid alert is announced.
"It's better to avoid visiting large shopping centers. Or at least visit centers where their owners have created and equipped shelters, and go there during the air-raid alert," Vilkul said.
He also drew attention to how shopping facilities operate during an air-raid warning. According to him, more than 100 entrepreneurs and shop owners, including the leadership of Sonnaya Galereya, under a signed instruction, were told that working during an alert is prohibited.
"And to shift responsibility for this onto visitors and tenants is wrong. In Sonnaya Galereya yesterday there was also an announcement about an air-raid warning over the loudspeakers 20 minutes before the explosion. Yet the stores were open, people were inside, and few went to shelters," noted Oleksandr Vilkul.
The consequences of the strike on Sonnaya Galereya continue to be clarified.
The enemy delivered two consecutive drone strikes on the shopping center during the day 21 August—first on the building itself, and then again when rescue workers were already on site. An emergency rescue operation is ongoing, and rescuers are clearing the rubble from the destroyed section of the complex.
As of 13:40 22 August, three people remained missing, including one child. In the morning of the same day, nine people were initially reported missing, five of whom were later identified among the dead and injured in hospitals, and another woman came forward and said she was all right.
Earlier, Informator reported that the number of victims of the Russian attack rose to 14 dead and 121 injured, among whom 22 child, and 29 people were in serious condition. We also wrote that the head of the Center for Countering Disinformation, Andriy Kovalenko, stated that the attack on the shopping center in Kryvyi Rih showed that Russia could deliver a similar strike to almost any city in the country, and the range of Russian attacks reaches at least 30 kilometers.
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