{"id":31323,"date":"2026-08-21T18:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/31323\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T18:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:21:07","slug":"14-killed-120-wounded-in-russian-strike-on-ukraines-kryvyi-rih","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/31323\/","title":{"rendered":"14 killed, 120 wounded in Russian strike on Ukraine&#8217;s Kryvyi Rih"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 14 people were killed and more than 120 wounded on Friday when two Russian drones struck a shopping center in the central <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/internationalrussia-ukraine-war\/article-906149\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ukrainian<\/a> city of Kryvyi Rih, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-two children were among the wounded in the daytime attack on President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/internationalrussia-ukraine-war\/article-905934\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a>&#8216;s hometown, regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha said on the Telegram messaging app.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;There are 29 people in serious condition, including five children,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">He posted a photo of black smoke billowing from a large industrial building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Zelensky called the attack &#8220;absolutely cynical and despicable,&#8221; saying that a second Russian drone hit the shopping center half an hour after the first in a deliberate attempt to target emergency services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Attacks like these are nothing less than terrorist acts,&#8221; Zelensky said on Telegram, urging the world to hold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-906160\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russia<\/a> to account.<\/p>\n<p>Russia is escalating its air war on Ukraine as fighting on the battlefield grinds toward the 4-1\/2 year mark. On Thursday, 17 people were killed in a Russian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-905908\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ballistic missile<\/a> attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Ukraine has also stepped up its own attacks on Russia, targeting oil facilities and logistics infrastructure to try to undermine Moscow&#8217;s ability to wage war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least 14 people were killed and more than 120 wounded on Friday when two Russian drones struck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1521,25,26,287],"class_list":["post-31323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ballistic-missile","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-russia-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31323","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=31323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}