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G7 leaders condemned Russia's deadly missile attack on a Ukrainian shopping mall as a "war crime" and warned Russian President Vladimir Putin "will be held accountable".
Two Russian rockets hit a shopping mall in the Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk, killing at least 13 people and injuring 50.
The leaders of the Group of Seven nations currently holding a summit in Germany said in a joint statement that they "solemnly condemn this heinous attack".
"We join Ukraine in mourning the innocent victims of this brutal attack.
"Indiscriminate attacks on innocent civilians constitute war crimes. Russian President Vladimir Putin and those responsible will be held accountable."
"Today, in the face of Russian aggression, we reaffirmed our unwavering support for Ukraine in a 124-day unjustified campaign."
They said they would "continue to provide Ukraine with financial, humanitarian and military support" for as long as needed.
"We will not rest until Russia ends its brutal and senseless war against Ukraine."
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said 1,000 civilians were in the building at the time of the attack.
"The mall is on fire, firefighters are trying to put it out, the number of victims is unimaginable," the head of state said on Telegram.
Zelensky added that the mall "has no threat to the Russian military" and "has no strategic value" to the Russians.
"People just want to live a normal life, which makes the occupiers so uneasy," he said.
"Out of frustration, Russia continues to hit the common people. It is futile to expect it to be reasonable or humane."
Poltava Central Region Governor Dmytro Lunin said 10 people had been killed and rescuers spent two days sifting through the smoking rubble and more bodies were likely to be found.
"This is an act of terrorism against civilians," he said separately, suggesting there were no nearby military targets Russia could target.
Worried family members, some in tears and covering their mouths, lined up at a hotel opposite the mall, where rescue workers set up a base.
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Kiril Zhebolovsky, 24, is looking for his friend Ruslan, 22, who works at an electronics store and has not heard from him since the blast.
"We texted him, called him, but nothing happened," he said. A mall worker, who identified himself as a 28-year-old, told Reuters that the mall's management had only allowed stores to remain open during the air-raid alert three days ago.
The Ukrainian Air Force Command said the mall was hit by two long-range X-22 missiles fired by a Tu-22M3 bomber from the Shekovka airfield in Russia's Kaluga region.
Russia's deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Dmitry Polyansky, tweeted no evidence that the attack was "a Ukrainian provocation."
"It is the Kyiv regime that needs to draw attention to Ukraine ahead of the NATO summit," he said, referring to the NATO meeting in Madrid scheduled to begin on Tuesday
Kremenchuk, an industrial city of 217,000 before the Russian invasion, is home to Ukraine's largest oil refinery.
After the attack, Boris Johnson condemned Vladimir Putin's "brutal and barbaric".
"This appalling attack shows once again the depths of cruelty and barbarism that Russia's leaders will plunge into," he said.
"This time, our thoughts are with the families of innocent victims in Ukraine. Putin must realize that his actions will only strengthen the resolve of Ukraine and all other G7 countries to support Ukraine if necessary."
Rockets hit at least two residential buildings just a day after Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital Kyiv for the first time in weeks.
Mr Zelensky's office said that over the past 24 hours, Russia carried out heavy artillery fire on several cities in Ukraine, including Kyiv and the country's largest cities in the south and east, killing at least six civilians and injuring 31.
Russian troops fired rockets overnight in and around Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, killing two people and wounding five others, as they continued to target the key southern port of Odessa, reports said.
It said the rocket attack destroyed residential buildings and injured six people, including a child.
In Lysychansk, at least five high-rise buildings and the last road bridge have been damaged in the past 24 hours, the local governor said.
Serhiy Haidai said the main highway linking the city to government-controlled territory was rendered impassable due to shelling, and the need to evacuate civilians was increasing.
The city had about 100,000 inhabitants before the war, about a tenth of which still exist.
Analysts say Lysychansk’s location high on the banks of the Siverskiy Donets river, as well as its large area dotted with hills, give a major advantage to the city’s Ukrainian defenders.
The river encloses Lysychansk from the north and east, while the Ukrainian army continues to hold territory west of the city, which it uses to supply arms and humanitarian aid.
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