3 articles · Updated · The Associated Press · Aug 21
Summary
15 people were killed and 130 injured — including 23 children — when Russian drones hit a shopping mall in Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian officials said Friday evening.
Zelenskyy said the attack was a double-tap strike, with a second wave arriving as rescuers responded; he called it a terrorist act and vowed Ukraine would answer.
21 people were killed across Ukraine on Friday after separate Russian attacks in Mykolaiv and Kharkiv, while Kyiv said it downed or suppressed 107 of 135 drones launched overnight.
The strike came a day after a mass Russian attack on Kyiv killed 16 and amid a summer surge in large-scale bombardments that Ukraine says is exploiting shortages of Patriot interceptors.
Ukraine also kept up long-range retaliation, with Zelenskyy saying drones hit an oil refinery in Perm and the Marinovka military airfield as cross-border strikes intensify.