Russian Strikes on Ukraine Kill Two, Officials Say, a Day After Deadly Attack on Mall
BBC News reports that at least two people have been killed in Ukraine due to Russian strikes, as per local authorities, with nine others still missing a day after a devastating double-tap attack on a shopping center that claimed 16 lives.
Local officials reported one fatality from a warehouse fire in Kyiv following an alert for a ballistic missile and another from a drone strike on Zaporizhzhia.
The attacks follow a brutal Russian drone strike on a busy mall in Kryvyi Rih on Friday, described by President Volodymyr Zelensky as "absolutely cynical and despicable," carried out in "two waves," targeting not only the mall but emergency workers responding to the initial incident.
Dramatic footage verified by the BBC shows the second drone striking the already burning shopping center in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Russia’s military has remained silent on the matter.
In Kryvyi Rih, 16 people are confirmed dead and nine still missing, with over 130 injured, including 23 children. Rescue teams from four other Ukrainian regions have been deployed to aid in the search for survivors. Mayor Oleksandr Vilkul decried the attackers as "animals," noting the drones flew at extremely low altitudes.
In Kyiv, a fire broke out in a warehouse early Saturday, resulting in one death and several injuries, according to the city’s military administration. In Zaporizhzhia, a Russian drone strike killed at least one man and injured four others, according to Ivan Fedorov, head of the regional military administration.
Additionally, four people were killed in separate Russian attacks in Ukraine’s southern Mykolaiv region on Friday, and another two in the north-eastern Kharkiv region, local officials reported.
