Based on reports, a Russian missile strike in Ukraine resulted in the death of a 17-year-old girl and injuries to an eight-month-old infant.
The young youngster is one of four people who killed and at least 42 people were injured in the incident, according to the prosecutor general’s office in Ukraine.
Moscow launched two missiles into Ukraine today, striking a mall that was populated with restaurants and cafes in the cities of Kramatorsk and Bilenke, both close by.
A favourite dinner spot for local war reporters, according to journalists, was a pizza shop that was damaged in the assault.
Reporter Arnaud De Decker posted a photo of his pizza and beer from inside the venue, saying it was taken just 20 minutes before the explosions.
He said ‘people were still screaming underneath the rubble’ an hour after the rockets had hit.
Emergency services worked into the night to search for victims who may have still been stuck.
Governor of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, told Ukrainian TV: ‘This is the city centre. These were public eating places crowded with civilians.’
Iuliia Mendel, the spokesperson for President Volodymyr Zelensky, tweeted a clip of a building almost completely destroyed with smoke billowing from the top of it.
The attacks are believed to have been carried out with two S-300 missiles.
Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska said: ‘Terrorists from RF attack civilians again. Kramatorsk, missile attack on a restaurant in the city center. Crowded place, evening — enemy do not want normal life in Ukraine.
‘There are a lot of wounded. It is painful. Evil must be punished.’
She also highlighted that today’s strike has happened on the anniversary of a deadly attack on Amstor mall in the centre of Kremenchuk.
More than 20 people were killed and 59 injured in the tragedy which took place exactly a year ago.
More than 1,000 people were inside the building when it was hit by a Russian Soviet-era Kh-22 missile carrying over 900kgs of explosives, Mr Zelensky said at the time.