Five killed and 67 injured in Russian strike on shopping centre, Ukraine says — SkimNews
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- Russian drone hit a shopping mall in Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk region, killing 5 and wounding 67 including 8 children, according to Ukrainian officials.
- Interior Minister Ivan Vyhivskyi said the attack took place "when the streets were full of people," with shops and vehicles destroyed in the daylight strike.
- Two other Ukrainian shopping malls came under Russian attack this week: one in Sumy on Wednesday killed 2 and wounded 20, while a Zaporizhzhia mall was nearly destroyed on Monday, though it was closed at the time.
- Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called the pattern a "tactic of coercion," saying Russia believes "relentless attacks on civilians can exhaust Ukrainians and force Ukraine into concession."
- President Volodymyr Zelensky said the Russians "used drones to kill people who were simply standing near shopping centres" and offered condolences to victims' families.
- US President Donald Trump's weekend peacemaking effort yielded "few concrete results" after envoys met Putin in Moscow and Zelensky in Kyiv.
- Russia reported reciprocal strikes: a Ukrainian seaborne drone attack on the resort city of Sochi wounded 28 including 2 children, with three more deaths blamed on Ukrainian attacks across Russian-controlled and Russian territory.
Why it matters: The Pavlohrad strike is the latest in a wave of attacks on Ukrainian civilian sites — including Sumy and Zaporizhzhia malls this week and Kryvyi Rih last month (16 killed) — that Ukraine frames as deliberate coercion, intensifying as Trump's envoy push returned home with "few concrete results" from both Putin and Zelensky.
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