Russian drones struck a shopping center in the city of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine on Friday, killing 14 people and wounding scores of others, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The city is the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy,<\/a> 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 \u201cAttacks like these are nothing less than terrorist acts,\u201d Zelenskyy wrote on social media.<\/p>\n Local administration head Oleksandr Vilkul put the death toll of 14, adding that 121 people were injured, including 22 children.<\/p>\n He said the rescue operation was ongoing.<\/p>\n THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP\u2019s earlier story follows below.<\/p>\n Russian drones struck a shopping center in the city of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine on Friday, killing six people and wounding scores of others, authorities said.<\/p>\n \n Sign up for our Daily Headlines newsletter \u2014 delivered to your inbox every morning at 7 a.m.\n <\/p>\n Thanks! You\u2019re all set.<\/p>\n Watch your inbox for Daily Headlines.<\/p>\n Six children were among the 91 injured in the afternoon strike in the city, which is the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy,<\/a> said local administration head Oleksandr Vilkul. He said the rescue operation was ongoing and that the number of casualties could still rise.<\/p>\n Zelenskyy described the strike as a double tap, with an initial wave of drones striking the area, followed by a second wave as rescue workers responded.<\/p>\n \u201cAttacks like these are nothing less than terrorist acts,\u201d Zelenskyy wrote on social media.<\/p>\n Kryvyi Rih has been hit multiple times during the more than 4-year-old war, with one of the deadliest occurring in April 2025,<\/a> when 20 people, including nine children, were killed.<\/p>\n Friday\u2019s attack came just 24 hours after Russia pounded the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv with scores of missiles and drones in a nighttime aerial attack that killed at least 16 people.<\/p>\n Moscow\u2019s forces have in recent months intensified their ballistic missile attacks on<\/a> Kyiv, exploiting Ukraine\u2019s chronic shortage of U.S.-made Patriot air defense interceptors<\/a>, the sole weapon in its arsenal able to shoot down the missiles.<\/p>\n Large-scale Russian strikes have become a regular occurrence<\/a> this summer. Just over two weeks ago, a Russian attack<\/a> on Kyiv and its surrounding region killed 17 people, and nine were killed<\/a> in the city two days before that. 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 injured.<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian drones struck a shopping center in the city of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine on Friday, killing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[551,153,154,364,6,8700,81],"class_list":["post-31303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-crime","tag-drone-surveillance-and-warfare","tag-general-news","tag-military-technology","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-terrorism","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}