Russian strikes kill 2 in Ukraine a day after mall attack

At least two people were killed overnight in Ukraine as Russian forces launched drone and missile attacks, authorities said Saturday. The strikes came just a day after a deadly attack on a shopping center in central Ukraine.

In Kyiv, a ballistic missile hit a railway facility, killing one employee of the national rail operator Ukrzaliznytsia, according to the company's head, Oleksandr Pertsovsky. Russia's Defense Ministry said its forces had struck a locomotive depot.

Separately, a Russian drone strike in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia killed one person, local officials reported.

The overnight attacks followed Friday's drone strike on a shopping center in Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The death toll from that attack has risen to 16, with nine people still missing and 130 wounded, said Dnipropetrovsk regional head Oleksandr Hanzha.

Zelenskyy described the Kryvyi Rih attack as a "double-tap" strike, where a second wave of drones hit as rescue workers were responding to the first.

Moscow has intensified ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv, taking advantage of Ukraine's shortage of U.S.-made Patriot air defense interceptors, the only system capable of shooting down such missiles. The capital has been hit repeatedly in recent weeks, with 17 people killed in a strike on Kyiv and its region just over two weeks ago, and nine more in another attack two days before that. The United Nations said Kyiv was one of the hardest-hit cities in July, with at least 54 civilians killed.

Meanwhile, Ukraine has continued long-range drone strikes on Russian oil facilities, causing fuel shortages, and has targeted warehouses of the online retailer Wildberries, unsettling the Russian public.