August 21, 2026 / 3:50 PM EDT
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Russian drones struck a shopping mall in the city of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine on Friday, killing at least 15 people and wounding scores more, authorities said.The shopping mall strike, plus two other separate Russian attacks in the Mykolaiv and Kharkiv regions, left a total of 21 people dead across Ukraine on Friday, authorities said. Kryvyi Rih is the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 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.
A site of a shopping center hit by a Russian drone attack in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, in this handout picture released Aug. 21, 2026.
