Five killed and 67 injured in Russian strike on shopping centre, Ukraine says

What the report says

Ukrainian officials said a Russian drone strike hit a shopping mall in Pavlohrad, in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, killing five people and injuring 67 others. The attack took place in the city centre during daylight, when streets were busy, according to Interior Minister Ivan Vyhivskyi and regional authorities cited by BBC World News. Officials said shops and vehicles were damaged in the blast and fire that followed.

The reported toll included eight children among the wounded, according to regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed condolences to the victims’ families and said the strike showed civilians near shopping centres were being targeted. Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha described the attack as part of a broader effort to pressure Ukrainians through repeated strikes on civilian areas.

BBC World News also reported that the Pavlohrad incident was the third attack on a shopping centre in Ukraine within days, following strikes on malls in Zaporizhzhia and Sumy earlier in the week. The city of Pavlohrad, a logistics hub near Dnipro, has been hit before during the wider war, which has continued since Russia’s full-scale invasion more than four years ago. The report also noted renewed diplomatic efforts on peace have so far produced limited progress.