Missiles Strike Odesa Shopping Mall, Ukraine's Military Says

Firefighters battled a large blaze at a destroyed shopping mall in Odesa, video released by State Emergency Service of Ukraine showed on Tuesday.

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[jimp]

Why not tell the whole story but only half of it? Is it a war crime that using civilian facility to hide military equipment?

[elliott]

Was that mall holding military vehicles like one in Kyiv was?

[cg._slowburning]

Dont store weapons in a shopping mall that was stupid for them to do thsat. glad it was closed at the time of the strike hundreds could have been killed

[danboyd]

Russia is launching one of those a week. Probably the limits of their production capability.

[frankhardie]

I see they are omitting the fact that the mall was packed full of weapons and munition from nato, yes Ukraine military stored thousands of tons of munitions in the mall.

[christucker]

The issue is, that Zelinski is hiding armaments in these malls. They are now targets. Stupid is what stupid gets...

[danyelaru]

Well, there were militar equipment courtesy of nato and u.s hide inside the mall...

[josephinealvarez]

Ohh my god, , save the people calling ur name ohh God,

[firmansyahfirman]

Kalau sudah begini bukan lagi ukraine yang rugi trmasuk AMERICA dan sekutunya juga rugi sampai bertahun tahun bisa rugi 😭😭😭😭🙏

[seanjamaica]

That's where Ukraine store American arms🤣

[misterhoneybunny]

The reason Vladimir Putin gave for this Ukraine Special Military Operation is NOT SOUND.

[reecom]

Western technology in the 1990’s could send a missile through a specific window, on a specific floor in a specific building in a specific city hundreds of miles away during the Gulf war in 1990; the Russian military needs a gigantic civilian shopping mall to hit any kind of target. There are a lot of Russian hackers posting saying that shopping mall was a military munitions depot. Just looking at the amount of damage, would indicate that it had no explosives stored in the mall by the amount of still standing light weight steel structures; if it was a military munitions depot, all that would be left is a huge hole in the ground. The shopping mall was an active mall with shoppers. No sane military would store munitions near civilians in a mall with shoppers walking around shopping. Any secondary explosions would be from gas utilities and chemicals normally found in a shopping mall exploding in a fire. If it was an ammunition explosion, un-exploded shells and bent ammunition casing would be seen by the independent news media.