Russian and Ukrainian attacks kill 5 people a day after deadly shopping mall drone strike by Moscow
Ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine has resulted in multiple casualties following drone and missile strikes on both sides. A recent Russian strike on a shopping center in Kryvyi Rih resulted in 16 deaths and numerous injuries.
Why it matters
The escalation of attacks on civilian infrastructure highlights the intensifying nature of the Russia-Ukraine war and the humanitarian impact.
Russian drone and missile strikes killed at least three people in Ukraine, officials said Saturday (August 22, 2026), while a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's Krasnodar region killed two others, a day after a strike on a Ukrainian shopping centre killed 16 people.
In the latest attacks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that one person was killed and another wounded when ballistic missiles hit railway infrastructure in the capital, Kyiv, overnight.
Russia's Defence Ministry said that its forces had hit a locomotive depot.
In a separate attack, local authorities said one person was killed Saturday (August 22, 2026) afternoon in a Russian ballistic missile strike on the Kyiv region, which surrounds the capital.
Moscow's forces have recently intensified their ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv, exploiting Ukraine's chronic shortage of U.S.-made Patriot air defence interceptors, the sole weapon in its arsenal able to shoot down the missiles.
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