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People embrace each other near a burning shopping mall following a Russian drone attack in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026.
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Ukrainian officials say Russian drones have hit a shopping mall in Kryvyi Rih, killing at least 15 people and wounding scores more. The city in central Ukraine is the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Regional military administration head Oleksandr Hanzha said 23 children were among the 130 injured in the Friday afternoon strike. Zelenskyy said it was a double-tap attack, with an initial wave of drones hitting the area followed by a second wave as rescue workers arrived. He said such attacks are “nothing less than terrorist acts.” Authorities say the shopping mall strikes, plus two other separate Russian attacks in the Mykolaiv and Kharkiv regions, killed a total of 21 people across Ukraine on Friday.
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