10 killed in Russian and Ukrainian attacks a day after fatal shopping mall drone strike

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian drone and missile strikes killed at least seven people in Ukraine, officials said Saturday, while a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Krasnodar region killed three people there.The attacks came a day after a Russian strike on a Ukrainian shopping center killed at least 16 people and wounded some 130.Moscow’s forces have recently intensified their ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv, exploiting Ukraine’s chronic shortage of US-made Patriot air defense interceptors, the sole weapon in its arsenal able to shoot down the missiles.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that one person was killed and another wounded in the latest attacks when ballistic missiles hit railway infrastructure in the capital, Kyiv, overnight.Russia’s Defense Ministry said that its forces had hit a locomotive depot.In a separate attack, local authorities said two people were killed Saturday afternoon in a Russian ballistic missile strike on the Kyiv region, which surrounds the capital.Russian drone strikes also killed one person overnight in the Zaporizhzhia region, local officials said Saturday, and a daytime attack killed three others and wounded 15.Zelenskyy said that three people were also wounded in an attack on a minibus in the regional capital, also called Zaporizhzhia.In Russia’s southern Krasnodar region, authorities said that three people, including two children, were killed and two adults were wounded in a Ukrainian drone strike.The latest attacks came a day after Russian drones struck a shopping center in the city of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine.Dnipropetrovsk regional head Oleksandr Hanzha said in the early hours of Saturday that the death toll had risen to 16.

Later on Saturday he said four people remain missing after the attack, which wounded a further 130.Kryvyi Rih is the hometown of Zelenskyy, who described the attack as a double-tap strike, in which an initial wave of drones hit the area followed by a second wave as rescue w...