'It was hell', survivors say of Russian missile strike on busy mall in Ukraine

People wounded in a shopping mall hit by a Russian missile strike are treated in a hospital, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kremenchuk, in Poltava region, Ukraine June 27, 2022. REUTERS/Anna Voitenko

KREMENCHUK, Ukraine (Reuters) - In a central Ukrainian intensive-care ward, five people are crammed into a room, their wounds bound up in bloodied bandages. A dead body lies on a stretcher outside, covered in a blanket.

This is the aftermath of a missile strike on a busy shopping mall in the city of Kremenchuk on Monday, southeast of Kyiv, an attack one of the patients described as "hell".