UPDATE: 1 killed, 32 injured in Russian Sept 22 strike on Kremenchuk.

The number of injured in the Russian Sept.

22 attack on Kremenchuk has grown to 32, Oleh Liednik, the head of the Kremenchuk District Military Administration, told Suspline media outlet on Sept.

23. Among the injured are children, and three people are in critical condition, he said. According to Kremenchuk Mayor Vitalii Maletskyi, three children were injured in the missile strike.

One person was killed, as announced by Poltava Oblast Governor Dmytro Lunin the day before. Russian forces attacked Kremenchuk around 5:30 p.m. on Sept.

22, damaging residential buildings. Lunin reported the same day that a Russian missile struck some civilian infrastructure without providing any details.

The governor also said the air defenses downed one missile but hasn't specified the total number of missiles launched against the city. Kremenchuk is a city with a pre-war population of 219,000 people, some 330 kilometers southeast of Kyiv down the Dnipro River.

Russian forces strike Kremenchuk on anniversary of Amstor shopping mall attack Russian troops targeted Kremenchuk on June 27 with the same missiles that hit local shopping mall Amstor exactly a year ago, according to Poltava Oblast Governor Dmytro Lunin.

The Kremenchuk shopping mall attack killed more than 20 people and injured 59.

Reporter

Alexander Khrebet is a reporter with the Kyiv Independent. He covers Ukraine's foreign policy, alleged abuse of power in the country's military leadership, and reports on the Russian-occupied territories. Alexander is the European Press Prize 2023 winner, the #AllForJan Award 2023 winner and Ukraine's 2022 National Investigative Journalism Award finalist.

His was published in the Washington Times and Atlantic Council.