Russian missile and drone strikes killed at least seven people across Ukraine on Saturday, while a Ukrainian drone strike inside Russia’s southern Krasnodar region left two dead, officials from both countries reported.
The latest round of assaults followed a major strike on Friday against a shopping center in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih. Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional administration, stated early Saturday that the death toll from the shopping center strike reached 16, with 130 people wounded and nine others still unaccounted for.
Friday’s attack occurred roughly 24 hours after an earlier nighttime barrage on Kyiv that also killed 16 people.
In Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that overnight ballistic missile strikes targeted local railway infrastructure, leaving one person dead and another injured. Russia’s Defense Ministry confirmed its forces struck a locomotive depot in the area.
Later on Saturday afternoon, local officials reported that a separate ballistic missile strike in the wider Kyiv region killed two more individuals. The strikes come amid ongoing Ukrainian shortages of U.S.-supplied Patriot interceptor missiles, which represent Ukraine’s only operational defense system capable of intercepting ballistic missiles.
Casualties were also reported in southern Ukraine. Regional officials in Zaporizhzhia stated that an overnight drone strike killed one person, while subsequent daytime attacks killed three people and wounded 15. President Zelenskyy noted that three people sustained injuries when an attack hit a minibus inside the regional capital city of Zaporizhzhia.
Across the border in Russia’s Krasnodar territory, local authorities reported that a Ukrainian drone strike killed two children and wounded two adults.
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