In Kryvyi Rih — the city where Zelenskyy was born — Russian drones struck a shopping centre on a Friday morning, killing sixteen people and wounding one hundred and thirty more, among them twenty-three children. A second drone followed thirty minutes later, aimed at the rescuers already pulling survivors from the rubble — a detail that strips away any claim of accident or imprecision. As Ukraine's allies prepare to gather in Kyiv on the country's independence day, this strike arrives as both a provocation and a reminder that the war's heaviest burden continues to fall on ordinary people in ord
Russia's shopping centre attack kills 16 in Zelenskyy's hometown; EU vows harshest sanctions
16 people killed in the shopping centre attack, with 130 wounded including 23 children; four more killed in a separate strike in Mykolaiv region.