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Russians DESTROY huge mall in Kyiv in horrific bombing at night leaving 8 dead

This attack on a shopping center is not a coincidence. Putin wants to starve the civilians to make them pressurize their leaders

Russian forces attacked the massive Retroville Mall in Ukraine's Kyiv late Sunday, March 20, leaving the building in ruins and killing at least eight people, local authorities said. The shelling is the latest in a series of attacks on civilians and civilian structures in Ukraine. Residential buildings near the mall have also been attacked, Kyiv City Administration said.

Vitaliy Klitschko, the city's mayor said on Monday, March 21, that at least 65 civilians are already dead in Kyiv as a result of shelling. "The aggressor wanted to capture Kyiv within two to three days. He did not succeed,” Klitschko said on Ukrainian television Monday, March 21. “Our military is giving a decent rebuff. And the Russians are already starting to wander around the homes of civilians out of helplessness."

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Klitschko suggested that the attack on the mall was not unintentional. “This attack on a shopping center is not a coincidence. Putin wants to starve the civilians to make them pressurize their leaders,” he said on Twitter. “Let’s pressurize Putin‘s Russia instead. If you continue to do business with them, you have blood on your hands.”

Even the US Pentagon has assessed that Russia’s attacks are designed to hit civilians. “We continue to see indiscriminate attacks against civilians which we believe in many cases is intentional,” Press Secretary John Kirby said on March 21.

There are currently videos surfacing online claiming to be of the moment the mall was bombed, while their authenticity has not been verified, these videos if true show quite the devastating attack. 

A few days ago Russian troops bombed an art school housing 400 civilians, including women and children, in their latest attack on Mariupol. The G12 art school in Mariupol’s Left Bank district was reportedly hit by thermobaric TOS-1A rockets, capable of melting human organs. Rescuers said that many people remain trapped but the number of casualties is unclear. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that the port's citizens were being killed in what would become an unspeakable war crime in history. "To do this to a peaceful city is a terror that will be remembered for centuries to come," he said. 

Again, days ago, Russian troops also bombed a theater said to be sheltering up to 1,200 people, with the word 'children' written outside the building. The Mariupol Drama Theatre was being used to house people and shelter them from shelling, with meals being provided. Satellite images reportedly showed that the word 'children' was written in visibly large white letters in Russian outside both the front and back of the building.