{"id":31629,"date":"2026-08-22T12:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T12:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/31629\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T12:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T12:16:07","slug":"russia-and-ukraine-trade-attacks-after-moscow-drones-kill-16-wound-130-at-a-shopping-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/31629\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia and Ukraine trade attacks after Moscow drones kill 16, wound 130 at a shopping mall"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A shopping mall damaged following a Russian strike in Kryvyi Rih, on Friday, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The attack was condemned as ‘cynical and despicable’ by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky.YAN DOBRONOSOV\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Russian drone and missile strikes killed at least seven people in Ukraine, officials said Saturday, while a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia\u2019s Krasnodar region killed two others, a day after a strike on a Ukrainian shopping centre killed 16 people.<\/p>\n

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

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said 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 Defence 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

Russia\u2019s latest attack on Kyiv underscores Ukraine\u2019s shortage of missile interceptors<\/a><\/p>\n

Russian drone strikes also killed one person overnight in the Zaporizhzhia region, local officials said Saturday, with a daytime attack killing three others and wounding 15. Zelensky 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 two children were killed and two adults were wounded in a Ukrainian drone strike.<\/p>\n

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Rescuers with a dog work at a site of the shopping mall destroyed on Saturday.Serhii Chalyi\/Reuters<\/p>\n

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

Dnipropetrovsk regional head Oleksandr Hanzha said in the early hours of Saturday that the death toll had risen to 16 and nine people remain missing after the attack, which wounded another 130.<\/p>\n

Kryvyi Rih is the hometown of Zelensky, 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. The Ukrainian leader said the fire, which spread across 9,000 square metres, had been extinguished and rescue efforts were underway.<\/p>\n

Kryvyi Rih has been hit multiple times during the 4 1\/2-year all-out war between Russia and Ukraine, with one of the deadliest occurring in April 2025, when 20 people were killed, including nine children.<\/p>\n

Large-scale Russian strikes have become a regular occurrence this 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

The capital has been hit hard repeatedly in recent weeks: 17 people were killed in a strike on Kyiv and its surrounding region just over two weeks ago, and nine died in another attack on 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 wounded. <\/p>\n

16 people reportedly died after Russian drones struck a shopping center in the city of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n

At the same time, Ukraine has shifted the war onto Russian soil through long-range drone strikes on oil facilities that have caused fuel shortages across Russia. It also has unsettled the Russian public by striking warehouses of Wildberries, 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. Local officials said that damage was recorded at an unidentified \u201cindustrial facility\u201d and a logistics centre for Ozon, a competitor to Wildberries.<\/p>\n

Zelensky said Saturday Ukrainian forces struck the Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery in Samara, noting its distance some 1,000 kilometres from the front line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: A shopping mall damaged following a Russian strike in Kryvyi Rih, on Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[273,255,274,247,245,275,272,244,262,263,258,246,243,268,270,267,261,253,286,248,249,260,256,257,251,276,252,281,282,284,279,283,277,280,250,265,266,79,264,278,254,269,271,259,85,81,285],"class_list":["post-31629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31629","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=31629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}