Rescuers search rubble of Ukraine shopping centre after Russian missile strike

The shopping centre in Kremenchuk, Ukraine (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)

Rescuers are searching through the rubble of a shopping centre looking for more victims of a Russian missile strike that killed at least 18 and wounded scores more in what Ukraine’s president called “one of the most daring terrorist attacks in European history”.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said many of the more than 1,000 afternoon shoppers and workers inside the building in the city of Kremenchuk managed to escape.