At least two people were killed in Ukraine overnight in Russian drone and missile strikes, a day after a strike on a shopping mall in Kryvyi Rih killed 16 people, the Associated Press reported, citing local authorities, BTA reports.
The director of Ukraine's national railway operator "Ukrzaliznytsia" Oleksandr Pertsovsky said that one of the company's employees was killed in a ballistic missile attack last night on a railway line in Kiev.
The Russian Defense Ministry announced in turn that Russian forces had struck a locomotive depot.
Moscow has recently begun to launch increasingly frequent missile strikes on Kiev, taking advantage of Ukraine's shortage of US-made Patriot air defense systems. - the only weapon in the Ukrainian arsenal capable of shooting down missiles.
A Russian drone strike last night also killed one person in Zaporizhia Oblast, local authorities said.
The attacks come just today after Russian drones hit the largest shopping mall in the city of Krivoy Rog.
The head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration, Oleksandr Ganja, confirmed early this morning that the death toll had risen to 16, with nine people still missing. At least 130 people were also reported injured.
Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, has been regularly targeted by Russian forces.
Zelensky described yesterday's attack as a "double strike", with a first wave of drones attacking the area, followed by a second wave that hit the shopping mall while rescue teams were responding to the initial call.