At least two people were killed overnight in Ukraine by Russian drone and missile strikes, authorities said, a day after an attack on a shopping centre killed 16 people.
Oleksandr Pertsovsky, the head of Ukraine’s national rail operator, said Saturday that one of the company’s employees was killed in an overnight ballistic missile attack on the railway in the capital Kyiv.
Russia’s Ministry of Defence said Saturday its forces had hit a locomotive depot.
Moscow’s forces have recently intensified their ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv, exploiting Ukraine’s chronic shortage of US-made Patriot air defence interceptors, the sole weapon in its arsenal able to shoot down the missiles.
Russian drone strikes also killed one person overnight in Zaporizhzhia, local officials said Saturday.
The latest attacks came a day after 16 people died when Russian drones struck a shopping centre in the city of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine.
Nine people remain missing after the attack, and another 130 were wounded.
The shopping centre strikes, along with two other separate Russian attacks in the Mykolaiv and Kharkiv regions, left at least 21 people dead across Ukraine on Friday.
Kryvyi Rih is the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who described the attack as a “double-tap” strike, in which an initial wave of drones hit the area, followed by a second wave as rescue workers responded.
“Attacks like these are nothing less than terrorist acts,” Zelenskyy wrote on social media.
In a video address several hours later, he said Ukraine would respond to the shopping centre attack.
Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration, said on Friday evening that the attack on the shopping centre had killed at least 15 people and injured 130, including 23 children.
Kryvyi Rih has been hit multiple times during the more than four-year-old war, with one of the deadliest attacks taking place in April 2025, when 20 people, including nine children, were killed.
Earlier on Friday, a Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s Kharkiv region killed two women, aged 73 and 66, and wounded two others, regional head Oleh Syniehubov said.
Another Russian attack on Friday evening killed four people, including three children, in Ukraine’s southern Mykolaiv region, emergency services said.
Ukraine’s air force said it shot down or suppressed 107 of 135 drones launched by Russia overnight.
Friday’s attacks came just 24 hours after Russia launched a major aerial attack throughout the night on Kyiv involving scores of missiles and drones, killing 16 people.
Large-scale Russian strikes have become a regular occurrence this summer.
Just over two weeks ago, a Russian attack on Kyiv and the surrounding region killed 17 people, while nine were killed in the city two days earlier.
The United Nations said last week that Kyiv was one of the hardest-hit cities in July, with at least 54 civilians killed and 202 injured.
Meanwhile, a Ukrainian drone attack killed one person and wounded four others when a car was struck on Friday in Russia’s Belgorod region near the village of Razumnoye, local officials said.
Two of those injured were in serious condition.
Earlier, Zelenskyy said a separate Ukrainian drone attack had hit an oil refinery in Perm, more than 995 miles from Ukraine’s border.
He also said the Marinovka military airfield in Russia’s Volgograd region had been struck.
Russian online news outlet Astra reported that a Ukrainian drone had set fire to a Lukoil-operated oil refinery in Perm.
Local officials said damage had been recorded at an unidentified “industrial facility”.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said its air defences had intercepted 325 Ukrainian drones over 15 Russian regions, as well as Crimea, which Moscow illegally annexed in 2014.
Later on Friday, it said its air defences had shot down another 211 drones.
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