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Russian drones hit Kryvyi Rih shopping centre; Ukraine says 16 dead
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What we know
Ukrainian officials said Russian drones struck a busy shopping centre in Kryvyi Rih, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's hometown, on Friday, killing civilians in a daytime attack.
Regional authorities raised the death toll to 16 and said more than 130 people were wounded, including children. Zelenskyy described a second strike about half an hour after the first and called the attack cynical.
Separately, Ukrainian officials reported a drone strike in the Mykolaiv region that killed four people, including three minors.
What's confirmed
- Dnipropetrovsk regional officials publicly updated the Kryvyi Rih toll to 16 dead and reported more than 130 wounded, including children among the injured.
- Zelenskyy publicly condemned the shopping-centre strike and said a second drone hit after the first.
- Wire reporting (including Reuters) carried the casualty figures attributed to Ukrainian regional and national officials.
- Ukrainian officials also reported fatalities in a separate Friday strike in the Mykolaiv region.
What's still developing
- Independent verification of precise casualty breakdowns and of whether the second strike deliberately targeted responders remains incomplete outside Ukrainian official accounts.
- Nine people were preliminarily listed as missing in early Saturday regional updates, including children, while rubble clearance continued.
- Russia had not issued a detailed public accounting of the Kryvyi Rih strike matching Ukrainian figures at the time of this desk collation.