Russian airstrikes on Ukraine: at least seven dead, Kyiv targets Ozon

Russian attacks killed at least seven people in Ukraine on Saturday, including one in Kyiv and three in the Zaporizhzhia region, while rescue workers continued to search the rubble of Kryvyi Rih after Friday's deadly attack on a shopping center.

In Kyiv, a fire broke out in a building in the Darnytskyi district after a Russian airstrike on a railway facility. The victim, a foreman with Ukrzaliznytsia, the state-owned railway operator, was killed by ballistic missiles, according to the company's director, Oleksandr Pertsovskyi. Two other people died in the Boryspil district, on the eastern outskirts of the capital.

In the Zaporizhzhia region, three people were killed and seventeen injured, including a child, following several Russian attacks on August 22, said Ivan Fedorov, head of the regional administration.

These strikes come the day after a daytime drone attack on Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelensky . At least sixteen people were killed and 130 wounded in this double wave of attacks. On Saturday, nine people, including two children, were still missing. Sixty-one wounded remained hospitalized, 23 in serious condition, according to the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast administration, Oleksandr Hanzha.

Zelensky called the "double-tap" tactic—attacking rescue teams a second time—"absolutely cynical and despicable." The EU's foreign policy chief, Kaia Kallas, condemned the attack on Kryvyi Rih, saying it demonstrated "the absolute and total immorality of the war launched by Moscow" and was "an act of targeted terrorism."

On Friday night, Russian forces launched 217 drones and several missiles against Ukraine. Ukrainian air defenses shot down or neutralized 182 Shahed and Gerber drones, three air-to-surface missiles, and six Banderole-type loitering munitions, according to the air force.

July was the deadliest month for Ukrainian civilians since May 2022: at least 437 civilians were killed, a 30% increase compared to June and a 70% increase compared to July 2025, according to the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine. Kyiv suffered particularly, with at least 54 deaths and 202 injuries that month.

On the Ukrainian side, drones struck the logistics center of Ozon, Russia's second-largest online retailer, in Chapayevsk, Samara region, for the first time. The attack caused a fire in a 135,000-square-meter warehouse, the construction of which had cost approximately 5 billion rubles. More than 500 employees had been evacuated shortly before the impact. Several people were injured, and operations at the site were disrupted, Ozon's press service confirmed.

A fire also broke out at the Novokuibyshevsk refinery in the same region, according to reports circulating on Telegram. This refinery, owned by the Rosneft group, processes approximately 8,8 million tons of oil per year and supplies, among other things, jet fuel to the Russian military. Zelensky also confirmed long-range Ukrainian airstrikes on the Perm refinery, more than 1,600 kilometers from the border, as well as on the Marinovka military airbase in the Volgograd region.

In Russia, two children were killed in Yeysk, in the Krasnodar region, after a drone crashed in a residential area. In Sevastopol, in occupied Crimea, debris from a downed Ukrainian drone fell on a public bus, causing a fire: two people were killed and five others injured, three of them seriously.