Fresh Russian strikes hit Ukraine this morning, killing at least two people, authorities said, as the country reels from a deadly attack a day earlier on a crowded shopping centre.
The Kyiv City Military Administration said a warehouse caught fire in the capital’s Darnytskyi district after officials issued an alert warning of a ballistic missile.
“According to preliminary information, unfortunately, there is one person dead and several injured,” the administration said on Telegram.
Farther south in Zaporizhzhia, a Russian drone attack killed a man and injured four others, according to Ivan Fedorov, the head of the regional military administration.
The morning attacks followed a wave of Russian bombings yesterday that killed at least 20 people across Ukraine, including 16 in a daytime drone strike on a busy shopping center in President Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih.
Emergency crews tackle fires after the blast at the Kryvyi Rih shopping centre
In Kryvyi Rih, rescue teams worked through the night, regional military governor Oleksandr Ganzha said, adding that nine people were still missing, including two children.
Rescue services said the attack wounded 130 people, including 23 children.
The United Nations said the civilian death toll so far this year has climbed to its highest level since the war’s opening months.
Kyiv has repeatedly urged allies to provide more support as Russia intensifies its campaign, with Ukrainian forces struggling in particular to intercept waves of ballistic missiles.
Ukraine, meanwhile, has stepped up retaliatory strikes on Russia in recent months, in part as an effort to push Moscow toward negotiations to end what has become Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II.
So far, diplomatic attempts have not brought the two sides closer to an agreement, with Russia insisting on sweeping territorial and political concessions from Kyiv.
Mr Zelensky has rejected those demands, saying accepting them would amount to capitulation and would leave Ukraine vulnerable to another Russian assault.
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