Rescue workers search for people under rubble of Kryvyi Rih shopping centre – Zelenskyy

Rescue workers are continuing to clear the rubble and search for people at the site of a Russian strike on a shopping centre in Kryvyi Rih. So far 16 people are known to have been killed and 130 injured.

Source: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Details: Zelenskyy reported that the fire, which covered an area of 9,000 sq m, has been extinguished. Emergency rescue teams from seven oblasts and specialist dog handlers have been deployed to the site.

Of the 130 people injured, 23 are children.

Zelenskyy also said Russia's missile and drone strikes started in the evening and went on throughout the night across Ukraine.

In Kyiv, ballistic missile strikes damaged railway infrastructure, killing one person and injuring another.

In Zaporizhzhia, a Russian FPV drone attacked a fixed-route minibus, injuring three people.

Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Sumy, Kherson, Chernihiv and Mykolaiv oblasts also came under attack.

Background: On 21 August, Russian forces mounted two drone attacks on a shopping centre in Kryvyi Rih.

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