
People watch as smoke bellows after a Russian missile strike hit a crowded shopping mall, in Kremenchuk
(Picture: AP)British defence chiefs said on Wednesday there was a “realistic possibility” that a horrific missile strike on a shopping centre in Ukraine may have been intended for another nearby target.
But they stressed that Russian military planners were “highly likely” to be willing to kill many civilians as “collateral damage” in Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.