Russian missile and drone strikes killed at least seven people across Ukraine on Saturday, while a Ukrainian drone attack killed three people in Russia's southern Krasnodar region, according to officials cited by the Associated Press. The renewed cross-border violence followed a Russian drone strike on a shopping centre in Kryvyi Rih whose toll rose to 16 dead and about 130 wounded.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said ballistic missiles hit railway infrastructure in Kyiv overnight, killing one person and wounding another. Russia's Defense Ministry said its forces struck a locomotive depot. Authorities in the wider Kyiv region reported two more deaths in a separate ballistic missile attack on Saturday afternoon.
Regional officials said Russian drones killed one person overnight in the Zaporizhzhia region, and a later attack killed three others and wounded 15. Zelenskyy also reported that three people suffered injuries when an attack hit a minibus in Zaporizhzhia city. In Krasnodar, Russian authorities said a Ukrainian drone strike killed three people, including two children, and wounded two adults.
The attacks extended a particularly deadly sequence. Dnipropetrovsk regional head Oleksandr Hanzha said four people remained missing after Friday's Kryvyi Rih shopping-centre attack. Zelenskyy described that incident as a double-tap strike, with a second wave arriving as rescuers responded, and said a fire covering 9,000 square metres had been extinguished.
Ukraine also continued long-range attacks on Russian economic infrastructure. Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces struck the Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery in Samara, about 1,000 kilometres from the front. Russian officials acknowledged damage at an unidentified industrial facility and a logistics centre, while the Russian outlet Astra reported a refinery fire.
Russian President Vladimir Putin told state television that attacks on economic targets had not created a turning point and warned of retaliation against sensitive Ukrainian sectors, Reuters reported. AP said Russia has intensified ballistic attacks amid Ukraine's shortage of Patriot interceptors, while Ukraine is using domestically produced drones farther inside Russia. The latest casualties underline the growing civilian cost as neither side reports a decisive battlefield shift.
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