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

Rescue workers continue 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: According to Zelenskyy, the fire covering an area of 9,000 square metres has been extinguished. Emergency rescue teams from seven oblasts and dog handlers have been deployed to the site.

Of the 130 people injured, 23 are children.

Zelenskyy also reported that Russia conducted missile and drone strikes across Ukraine from the evening and throughout the night.

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

In Zaporizhzhia, a Russian FPV drone attacked a city's 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 attacked a shopping centre in Kryvyi Rih with drones twice.

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