In the fifth year of a war that has long since blurred the line between battlefield and marketplace, a Russian drone struck a shopping mall in Pavlohrad, Ukraine on a Thursday afternoon, killing five people and wounding 67 others, including eight children. It was the third such strike on a civilian commercial centre in as many days, part of what Ukrainian officials describe as a deliberate strategy to erode the will of ordinary people through ordinary places. Peace envoys from Washington have been shuttling between Moscow and Kyiv, but the drones have not paused, and the gap between diplomacy
Russian drone strike kills 5, wounds 67 at Ukrainian shopping mall
Five people killed and 67 wounded, including eight children, in the Pavlohrad shopping mall attack; pattern of civilian casualties across multiple Ukrainian cities from repeated Russian drone strikes on commercial centres.