At least 16 people were killed in Ukraine on Friday after a Russian 'double-tap' drone struck a busy shopping centre. An additional 130 people were wounded in the airstrike in the city of Kryvyi Rih, President Volodymyr Zelensky's hometown. Footage shared on social media shows the Russian drone flying over the Ukrainian city before plunging towards the shopping centre and exploding into a giant fireball. Separate videos from inside the shopping centre showed panicked civilians trying to evacuate the building as it filled with smoke. Images also showed injured Ukrainians receiving medical attention on the side of the road. Regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha said that 22 children were among the wounded in the daytime attack.'There are 29 people in serious condition, including five children,' Hanzha said. He also posted a photo of black smoke billowing from a large industrial building.In an update early on Saturday, Hanzha said nine people were preliminarily considered missing, including two children, and that rescuers were continuing to clear the rubble of the shopping centre.Zelensky called the attack 'absolutely cynical and despicable', saying that a second Russian drone hit the shopping centre half an hour after the first in what he said was a deliberate attempt to target emergency services. Screengrab from a video shared on social media shows the Russian drone flying over the Ukrainian city before plunging towards the shopping centre Image shows a massive fireball explosion after the drone struck the shopping centre Separate videos from inside the shopping centre showed panicked civilians trying to evacuate the building as it filled with smoke'Attacks like these are nothing less than terrorist acts,' Zelensky said on Telegram, urging the world to hold Russia to account. 'We will definitely respond.' In a separate attack on Friday, at least four people, including three children, were killed and a woman was wounded after a Russian drone strike in Ukraine's southern region of Mykolaiv, Ukrainian state media said on Telegram.On Thursday, 17 people were killed in a Russian ballistic missile attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.Russia is escalating its air war on Ukraine as fighting on the battlefield grinds toward the four-and-a-half-year mark. Ukraine has also stepped up its own attacks on Russia, targeting oil facilities and logistics infrastructure to try to undermine Moscow's ability to wage war.Overnight, Ukraine shot down or suppressed 107 out of 135 drones launched by Russia, according to a statement from Ukraine’s air force on Telegram.Meanwhile, a Ukrainian drone attack killed one person and wounded four others when a car was struck Friday in Russia’s Belgorod region near the village of Razumnoye, local officials said, adding that two of the injured were in serious condition.Long-range strikes between Russia and Ukraine have escalated as troops continually fail to make significant battlefield progress, analysts say. Troop movements along the roughly 780-mile front line in eastern and southern Ukraine are severely restricted by large numbers of drones and ground robots that threaten infantry and vehicles. A rescuer works at the site of a shopping centre destroyed by yesterday's Russian drone attack, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the city of Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, August 22, 2026 Pictured: The exterior of the shopping centre destroyed by yesterday's Russian drone attack Rescuers work at the site of the shopping centre In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Military administration, firefighters work on a fire at a shopping mall following a Russian drone attack in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026 Smoke rises from an Ozon warehouse following a Ukrainian drone attack, in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, in Chapayevsk, Samara region, Russia, August 22, 2026In the past year, Ukraine has devised and deployed domestically produced long-range drones for strikes deep inside Russia, capturing the attention of governments and defence manufacturers around the world.Officials in Kyiv aim to make the Russian public feel the war’s consequences and pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin into negotiating a peace settlement. Putin has so far shown no sign that he intends to stop the invasion.