LONDON (Reuters) – Russia said on Monday it had used high-precision long-range rockets on a shopping centre which the Russian military said was being used as a weapons store by Ukrainian forces.
Shelling hit a Kyiv shopping centre late on Sunday, killing at least eight people, wrecking nearby buildings and leaving smoking piles of rubble and the twisted wreckage of burned-out cars spread over several hundred metres.
“The areas near the shopping centre were used as a large base for storing rocket munitions and for reloading multiple rocket launchers,” Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov told reporters.
“High-precision long-range weapons on the night of March 21 destroyed a battery of Ukrainian multiple rocket launchers and a store of ammunition in a non-functioning shopping center,” he said.
(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; Editing by Conor Humphries)
