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Russian forces conducted overnight drone and missile strikes across Ukraine that claimed at least two lives, Ukrainian authorities reported Saturday. The attacks targeted railway infrastructure in Kyiv and a village in the Zaporizhzhia region, adding to mounting casualties from intensified Russian bombardment across the country.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed a ballistic missile strike on Kyiv’s railway infrastructure left one person dead and another wounded. Russia’s Ministry of Defense separately claimed its military had successfully struck a locomotive depot in the capital, part of an escalating campaign exploiting Ukraine’s limited supply of U.S.-made Patriot air defense systems—currently the only weapons capable of intercepting the ballistic missiles.
A separate drone strike killed one person in a Zaporizhzhia village, while three others sustained injuries in an attack on a minibus in the regional capital, according to local officials. These strikes followed a devastating attack Friday on a shopping center in Kryvyi Rih, Zelenskyy’s hometown, which killed 16 people and left nine others missing.
The Kryvyi Rih shopping center attack resulted in 130 wounded and spread across 9,000 square meters before being extinguished, Dnipropetrovsk regional head Oleksandr Hanzha reported. Zelenskyy characterized the assault as a double-tap strike, in which a second wave of drones targeted the area as rescue workers responded to the initial attack.
Kryvyi Rih has endured repeated Russian bombardment throughout the war, including a deadly April 2025 strike that killed 20 people, nine of them children. Large-scale Russian attacks have accelerated this summer, with Friday’s shopping center bombing occurring just 24 hours after a nighttime assault on Kyiv that also claimed 16 lives.
Kyiv and surrounding regions have absorbed particularly heavy fire in recent weeks, with 17 killed in an attack two weeks ago and nine more in a separate strike days later. The United Nations documented at least 54 civilians killed and 202 injured across Kyiv during July alone, identifying it among the hardest-hit cities in the conflict.
Ukraine has countered with long-range drone strikes targeting Russian oil facilities, creating widespread fuel shortages across Russian territory. Recent strikes have also hit warehouses belonging to Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer, and Saturday’s attack set ablaze an oil refinery in the Samara region, according to Russian outlet Astra, with additional damage reported at an Ozon logistics facility.
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