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Technology and ScienceBy Volodymyr Yurchuk8/22/20261 min read
Authorities say that Russian and Ukrainian drone and missile strikes have killed at least 10 people. Ukrainian officials said that one person died on Saturday in a ballistic missile strike on Kyiv. Russia’s Defense Ministry said that the strike hit a locomoti…
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- Russian drone and missile strikes killed at least seven people across Ukraine on Saturday, while a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's Krasnodar region killed three people, bringing the day's combined death toll to 10.
- The violence followed a Russian strike on a shopping center in Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine that killed at least 16 people and wounded around 130, according to authorities.
- Ukrainian officials reported that the total death toll from the mall strike alongside separate Russian attacks in the Mykolaiv and Kharkiv regions reached 21 across Ukraine on Friday.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said one person was killed and another wounded when overnight ballistic missiles struck railway infrastructure in Kyiv, while Russia's Defense Ministry said its forces had hit a locomotive depot.
- Russian forces have escalated ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv, taking advantage of Ukraine's persistent shortage of U.S.-made Patriot air defense interceptors, the only weapon capable of downing such missiles.
- Speaking at the ruling party's congress in Moscow, Vladimir Putin declared that Russia "will not retreat from the principles of democracy" and would continue holding elections across its territory, including in occupied regions he referred to as Novorossiya and Donbass.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) Russian drone and missile strikes killed at least seven people in Ukraine, officials said Saturday, while a Ukrainian drone attack on Russias Krasnodar region killed three people t