10 Dead in Russian, Ukrainian Attacks Day After Mall Strike
Russian airstrikes killed at least seven people across Ukraine while Ukrainian drones struck back into Russian territory, killing three in Krasnodar, following a Friday shopping center attack that left 16 dead.
The deadly exchange follows a Friday Russian strike on a shopping center that left 16 dead and approximately 130 wounded, according to New York Post.
Moscow has escalated its ballistic missile campaign against Kyiv in recent weeks, capitalizing on Ukraine’s dwindling stockpile of US-manufactured Patriot air defense interceptors—the only system capable of downing such weapons in Ukraine’s arsenal.
Railway Infrastructure Hit in Capital
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that ballistic missiles struck railway facilities in Kyiv overnight, killing one person and wounding another. Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed its forces successfully targeted a locomotive depot.
A separate Russian ballistic missile attack on the Kyiv region Saturday afternoon killed two additional people, local authorities reported.
Russian drone operations overnight killed one person in the Zaporizhzhia region, with a subsequent daytime strike claiming three more lives and injuring 15 others, as New York Post reports.
Zelenskyy noted that three people sustained injuries when an attack hit a minibus in Zaporizhzhia’s regional capital.
Meanwhile, Russian authorities in the southern Krasnodar region confirmed that a Ukrainian drone strike killed three people, including two children, and wounded two adults.
Shopping Center Death Toll Rises
The violence followed Friday’s Russian drone assault on a shopping center in Kryvyi Rih, central Ukraine.
Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk region, announced early Saturday that the death toll had climbed to 16, with four people still missing and 130 wounded.
Kryvyi Rih—Zelenskyy’s hometown—suffered what the Ukrainian president characterized as a double-tap strike: an initial drone wave followed by a second assault targeting emergency responders.
The resulting fire consumed approximately 9,000 square meters before being extinguished, allowing rescue operations to proceed.
The city has endured repeated attacks throughout the conflict’s four-and-a-half-year duration. One of the deadliest occurred in April 2025, when 20 people, including nine children, were killed.
Massive Russian strikes have become routine this summer. Friday’s attack came just 24 hours after Russia unleashed dozens of missiles and drones against Kyiv in a nocturnal barrage that killed 16.
United Nations data released last week identified Kyiv as among July’s hardest-hit cities, with at least 54 civilians killed and 202 wounded.
Ukraine Strikes Deep Into Russian Territory
Ukraine has increasingly brought the conflict onto Russian soil through long-range drone campaigns targeting oil infrastructure, creating fuel shortages across Russia.
Ukrainian forces have also struck warehouses belonging to Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer, a tactic designed to unsettle the Russian civilian population.
The Russian online outlet Astra reported Saturday that a Ukrainian drone ignited an oil refinery in the Samara region. Regional officials confirmed damage at an unidentified industrial facility and a logistics center operated by Ozon, a Wildberries competitor.
Zelenskyy confirmed Saturday that Ukrainian forces successfully struck the Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery in Samara—located approximately 620 miles from the front lines.
With information from New York Post
