{"id":31525,"date":"2026-08-22T08:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T08:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/31525\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T08:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T08:10:07","slug":"at-least-two-killed-in-fresh-russian-strikes-on-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/31525\/","title":{"rendered":"At least two killed in fresh Russian strikes on Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At least two people have been killed in Russian strikes on Ukraine on Saturday, as rescue operations continue in Kryvyi Rih following Friday&#8217;s deadly attack on a shopping centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In Kyiv, one person died after a fire broke out at a building in the capital&#8217;s Darnytskyi district, according to the Kyiv City Military Administration, which had issued an air raid alert shortly before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, the head of Ukrainian Railways, a state-run rail operator, said Russian forces had targeted a railway facility with ballistic missiles and that the victim was a foreman at the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The Odesa railway is also under attack,&#8221; he added in a social media post on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man was also killed in a drone strike on Kushuhum in the southeastern Ukrainian region of Zaporizhzhia, per Ivan Fedorov, the regional governor. Four others were injured in the attack, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The strikes come a day after Russia launched a major daytime drone assault on the city of Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At least 16 people were killed and 130 were injured in the attack, which authorities say came in two waves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In an update on Saturday, Ukraine&#8217;s State Emergency Service (DSNS) reported that nine people, including two children, were still missing following the strikes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Oleksandr Hanzha, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration, said 61 of those injured in the attack remain in hospital, with 23 in a &#8220;serious condition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Zelenskyy shared footage on X on Saturday appearing to show scenes from Kryvyi Rih. Rescuers can be seen hunting through wreckage while other emergency workers speak with people on the streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Russian forces launched 217 drones and a number of missiles at Ukraine overnight, per the Ukrainian air force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;According to preliminary data, as of 09:00, air defences had shot down or neutralised 3 Kh-31P\/Kh-59 air-to-ground missiles, 6 &#8216;Banderole&#8217; loitering munitions, as well as 182 enemy UAVs of the Shahed and Gerber types and other types of drones in the north, south, east and centre of the country,&#8221; it said in a post on Telegram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least two people have been killed in Russian strikes on Ukraine on Saturday, as rescue operations continue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1234,8406,5571,11236,623,11215,705,26,10001],"class_list":["post-31525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ivan-fedorov","tag-kryvyi-rih","tag-kyiv-city-military-administration","tag-rescue-operations","tag-russian-forces","tag-shopping-centre","tag-strikes","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian-railways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31525","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=31525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}