At least six people were killed on Sunday night after the shelling of a shopping centre in Kyiv (Video)

Retroville shopping centre in northwestern Kyiv was left with a gaping crater several metres wide in front of a charred and still smouldering 10-storey building in the car park.

The entire southern part of the huge shopping centre was destroyed, as was a fitness club, an AFP reporter said.

Debris, wrecked vehicles and twisted ironwork littered the scene for hundreds of metres.

On Monday morning, firefighters and military personnel were working in the rubble to search for other victims.