At least 15 killed and 130 injured in Russian drone strike on Ukrainian shopping mall

At least 15 killed and 130 injured in Russian drone strike on Ukrainian shopping mall Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the attack as a double-tap strike and large-scale Russian strikes have become a regular occurrence this summer At least 15 people have died after Russian drones hit a shopping mall in central Ukraine, authorities said. The shopping mall strikes in Kryvyi Rih on Friday, August 21, injured at least 130 others. Kryvyi Rih is the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He warned that Ukraine would respond to the attack. The Ukrainian leader described the attack as a double-tap strike: an initial wave of drones hit the area, followed by a second wave as rescue workers responded. "Attacks like these are nothing less than terrorist acts," Zelenskyy wrote on social media. Oleksandr Hanzha, who heads the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration, confirmed that the attack killed at least 15 people and injured 130, including 23 children. Kryvyi Rih has been struck multiple times since the war started more than four years ago. Earlier on Friday, a Russian drone attack on Ukraine's Kharkiv region killed two women, aged 73 and 66, and wounded two others, said regional head Oleh Syniehubov. Another Russian attack on Friday evening killed four people, including three children, in Ukraine's southern Mykolaiv region, emergency services said. Large-scale Russian strikes have become a regular occurrence this summer. The United Nations said last week that the capital Kyiv was one of the hardest hit cities in July, with at least 54 civilians killed and 202 injured. Friday's attacks came just 24 hours after Russia pounded Kyiv with scores of missiles and drones in a night-time aerial attack that killed 16 people. Just over two weeks ago, a Russian attack on Kyiv and its surrounding region killed 17 people, while nine were killed in the city two days before that.