Russian strike on Ukraine kills at least 2, a day after deadly mall attack

At least two people were killed in Russian strikes on Ukraine, local authorities said, a day after a deadly attack on a busy shopping center.

Kyiv City Military Administration said one person was killed and several were injured at a warehouse in the capital’s Darnytskyi district. The authorities had issued an alert for a ballistic missile earlier in the day.

In the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, a Russian drone killed a man and wounded four people, according to the head of the regional military administration Ivan Fedorov.

The strikes came a day after a series of bombings killed at least 20 people across the country on Friday, including an attack on a Ukrainian shopping mall in the city of Kryvyi Rih which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described as “absolutely cynical and despicable,” which killed 16.

The president said that after the initial drone strike, a second russian drone hit the center half an hour after the first in what he described as a deliberate attempt to target emergency services.

“Attacks like these are nothing less than terrorist acts,” Zelenskyy said.

Rescue operations continued through the night, according to regional military governor Oleksandr Ganzha, who reported nine people missing, including two children.

Rescue services said the attack wounded 130 people, including 23 children.

The United Nations reported that the civilian death toll so far this year had risen to its highest level since the first months of the war.