Ukraine and Russia exchange deadly drone and missile strikes

Ukrainian drones hit an oil refinery, as well as a warehouse belonging to major Russian online retailer, Ozon, after Putin’s shopping centre strike killed 16 people.

In a post on Telegram, Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said that several people had been wounded in the strikes. He did not name the industrial facility struck, but the region hosts several oil refineries which have been repeatedly attacked by Ukraine.

It comes after more than 130 people were wounded yesterday when several Russian drones struck a shopping centre in central Ukraine, authorities said.

President Volodymyr Zelensky promised a response to the attack, which he described as an "act of barbarism".

At least nine people, including two children, have been missing and believed to be trapped under the rubble of a shopping centre attack by Russia, said regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha.

"Attacks like these are nothing less than terrorist acts," Mr Zelensky said on Telegram, urging the world to hold Russia to account. "We will definitely respond."

Russia’s overnight attack killed two people, local authorities said on Saturday morning, a day after Moscow's attack on a Ukrainian mall. One person was killed in a warehouse fire in Kyiv following a ballistic missile strike, while another person was killed in a drone strike on the city of Zaporizhzhia.

One of the main suspects in the 2022 Nord Stream explosions, Volodymyr Zhuravlev, was arrested by police in Pula, Croatia, under a European arrest warrant put out by Germany.

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky vowed to retaliate after a double-tap drone strike on his home town killed 16 people. Rescuers are still searching for survivors in the wreckage of a shopping mall in Kryvyi Rih, that was hit twice by Russia on Friday.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukraine hit the Novokuybyshevsk refinery and Ozon hub in Russia and shared footage of the aftermath on social media. In a post on X he said: “Over the past 24 hours, our forces struck the Novokuybyshevsk refinery—1,000 kilometers from the front line—depriving the Russian war machine of millions of dollars in export revenues. We also hit a logistics hub in the Samara region and targets in the Black Sea.”

Ukrainian drones killed at least six people in a wave of strikes on Russia overnight that also hit a warehouse owned by online retailer Ozon and an industrial facility in the Samara region. In a post on Telegram, Samara Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said that several people had been wounded in the strikes. He also said that two children had been killed and two adults wounded in a strike on the Sea of Azov port town of Yeysk. The governor of Russia's Belgorod region said two people had been killed and 13 wounded. In Bryansk, four people were wounded. In Luhansk, Moscow-installed governor Leonid Pasechnik said that two civilians, including a 16-year-old boy, had been killed and nine more wounded.

Ozon, Russia's second-largest online retailer, said in a statement on Telegram that work at its Samara region logistics centre in the town of Chapayevsk had been halted after the strike, which it said caused injuries. Russia's Defence Ministry said it downed 457 Ukrainian drones overnight.