{"id":69087,"date":"2026-08-22T22:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T22:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/69087\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T22:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T22:36:12","slug":"10-killed-in-russian-and-ukrainian-attacks-a-day-after-fatal-shopping-mall-drone-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/69087\/","title":{"rendered":"10 killed in Russian and Ukrainian attacks a day after fatal shopping mall drone strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 Russian drone and missile strikes killed at least seven people in Ukraine, officials said Saturday, while a Ukrainian drone attack<\/a> on Russia\u2019s Krasnodar region killed three people there.<\/p>\n

The attacks came a day after a Russian\u00a0strike on a Ukrainian shopping center<\/a>\u00a0killed at least 16 people and wounded some 130.<\/p>\n

Moscow\u2019s forces have recently intensified their ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv<\/a>, exploiting Ukraine\u2019s chronic shortage of US-made\u00a0Patriot air defense interceptors, the sole weapon in its arsenal able to shoot down the missiles.<\/p>\n

A view of a shopping mall damaged following a Russian strike in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Firefighters work on a fire at a shopping mall following a Russian drone attack on Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. Ukrainian Military administration via AP<\/p>\n

People embrace each other near a burning shopping mall following a Russian drone attack in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine on Friday. AP Photo\/undefined<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President\u00a0Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u00a0said that one person was killed and another wounded in the latest attacks when ballistic missiles hit railway infrastructure in the capital, Kyiv, overnight.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said that its forces had hit a locomotive depot.<\/p>\n

In a separate attack, local authorities said two people were killed Saturday afternoon in a Russian ballistic missile strike on the Kyiv region, which surrounds the capital.<\/p>\n

Russian drone strikes also killed one person overnight in the Zaporizhzhia region, local officials said Saturday, and a daytime attack killed three others and wounded 15. <\/p>\n

A civilian car is seen destroyed near a sports ground by a school following a massive Russian missile attack on Thursday, August 20, 2026, in Kyiv\u2019s Solomianskyi district, Ukraine. Ukrinform\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy said that three people were also wounded in an attack on a minibus in the regional capital, also called Zaporizhzhia.<\/p>\n

In Russia\u2019s southern Krasnodar region, authorities said that three people, including two children, were killed and two adults were wounded in a Ukrainian drone strike.<\/p>\n

A day on from a deadly attack on a shopping center<\/p>\n

The latest attacks came a day after Russian drones struck a shopping center in the city of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The latest attacks came a day after Russian drones struck a shopping center in the city of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Firefighters take part in operations against a fire at the site of a shopping mall damaged following a Russian strike on Friday in Kryvyi Rih. State Emergency Service of Ukraine\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Dnipropetrovsk regional head Oleksandr Hanzha said in the early hours of Saturday that the death toll had risen to 16. <\/p>\n

Later on Saturday he said four people remain missing after the attack, which wounded a further 130.<\/p>\n

Kryvyi Rih is the hometown of Zelenskyy, who described the attack as a double-tap strike, in which an initial wave of drones hit the area followed by a second wave as rescue workers responded. <\/p>\n

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The Ukrainian leader said the fire, which spread across 9,000 square meters (around 97,000 square feet), had been extinguished and rescue efforts were underway.<\/p>\n

Kryvyi Rih has been hit multiple times during the 4\u00bd-year\u00a0all-out war\u00a0between Russia and Ukraine, with one of the\u00a0deadliest occurring in April 2025, when 20 people were killed, including nine children.<\/p>\n

Large-scale Russian strikes have become a\u00a0regular occurrence\u00a0this summer, with Friday\u2019s attacks landing just 24 hours after Russia pounded Kyiv with scores of missiles and drones in a nighttime assault that killed 16 people. <\/p>\n

Rescuers take part in operations at the site of a shopping mall damaged following a Russian strike in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, on Friday. State Emergency Service of Ukraine\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The United Nations said last week that Kyiv was one of the hardest-hit cities in July, with at least 54 civilians killed and 202 wounded.<\/p>\n

Ukraine pounds Russia with long-range strikes<\/p>\n

At the same time, Ukraine has shifted the war onto Russian soil through\u00a0long-range drone strikes\u00a0on oil facilities that have caused fuel shortages across Russia. <\/p>\n

It also has unsettled the Russian public by striking\u00a0warehouses of Wildberries<\/a>, the country\u2019s biggest online retailer.<\/p>\n

The Russian online news outlet Astra reported Saturday that a Ukrainian drone set ablaze an oil refinery in the Samara region. <\/p>\n

Local officials said that damage was recorded at an unidentified \u201cindustrial facility\u201d and a logistics center for Ozon, a competitor to Wildberries.<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy said Saturday Ukrainian forces struck the Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery in Samara, noting it is some 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) from the front line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 Russian drone and missile strikes killed at least seven people in Ukraine, officials said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[4058,14237,1956,353,8,7536,1574,2138,9,790,2246,7,536,21197,9307,36,106],"class_list":["post-69087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-airstrikes","tag-attacks","tag-deaths","tag-drones","tag-headlines","tag-kyiv","tag-missiles","tag-moscow","tag-news","tag-russia","tag-strikes","tag-top-stories","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-war","tag-volodymyr-zelensky","tag-war","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/117141555312441004","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}