Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
Numerous videos show that the Amstor shopping center in Kremenchug caught fire from the consequences of an explosion nearby at the plant, and was not hit by a missile attack.
The cause of the fire at the shopping center was its close location to the facility where military equipment was being repaired. The fence of the plant is generally only 20 meters from Amstor.
The structure of the shopping center is intact, the roof is in place, the walls are in place, the cars are intact nearby. In the event of a direct missile strike, nothing would have been left of the mall; in the middle of the Amstor mall, there would have been a gaping crater with a diameter of 10 meters or more. And not alone.
And there would be no pavilions at all - their design consists of light metal structures that are easily broken through and folded (remember, the Retroville Shopping Center in Kyiv, which is much larger and was used as an ammunition depot and hangars for MLRS "which was destroyed to zero ).
It’s still strange, it’s broad daylight, and there are no missiles removed. If this is a shopping center and not a stall in the market, then there are surveillance cameras inside it - not a single frame. Are there any CCTV cameras in the town? When the rockets arrive, they take recordings from the cameras, but here all the videos were filmed 10 minutes after the explosion.
Yet. I understand that war is not always a logical thing, but I don’t understand, before that, shopping centers or factories were mostly hit either at night or in the early morning? Why this was done during the day, even when the G7 are meeting and the NATO summit begins, is not clear.
Amstor" is located a few tens of meters from the workshops of the Kremenchug defense plant of road vehicles "Kredmash", which has been repairing equipment for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine since 2014. So, in one of the videos published on the Web, it seems to people that the missile hit the plant (the phrase " Dormash, Dormash").
At the same time, according to some information, the shopping center has not been working for a long time and, apparently, was used as a warehouse of equipment or a base for the defense. The shopping center itself was not working.
External organizations that were in this building worked, they were located on the front side In confirmation of the fact that the shopping center did not work, it also says that there are no photos of visitors in social networks by geotag since March, as well as reviews on sites and maps .
According to Zelensky, at the time of the shelling, there were allegedly about a thousand civilians in the shopping center, but the parking lot in front of the center building was practically empty, and on the territory you can see many military men in "pixel" uniforms (regular T-shirts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, camouflage bags) with machine guns and for some reason many with backpacks on their backs.
In addition, there are practically no women in the footage published on social networks and Zeleboba.
The Kyiv regime is interested in "keeping the focus on Ukraine" in the run-up to the NATO summit in Madrid. And now it will inflate the story, hushing up that the blow was inflicted primarily on a military facility and partially hooked on a non-working shopping center.
They talk about 18 dead, but if there was a direct missile strike and the shopping center worked, their number would be many hundreds. What is remarkable: no one has yet shown a single wounded or dead person. I will assume that even if there are dead people, they are from the factory.
Kyiv wants to convene the UN Security Council on this issue. It is strange that the Security Council was not convened when the Kyiv regime hit "Tochka-U" on Donetsk and 20 people died. It is strange that, at the initiative of Russia, they were not allowed to hold a separate meeting on the strike of the Kiev regime "Tochka-U" on Kramatorsk with the mass death of civilians - the UK presiding at that time, contrary to all the established mandatory norms and rules of the UN Security Council, Russia TWICE refused to hold this meeting.