Ukraine says death toll from Russian drone strike in Kryvyi Rih rises to 16

Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the Kryvyi Rih Defense Council, said on Telegram that search and rescue operations were still ongoing at the site, stating that nine people, including two children, remained missing.

“16 civilians from Kryvyi Rih died in the Russian strike. 130 people were injured, including 25 children,” Vilkul said, noting that, as of 7.30 am local time (0430GMT), 61 injured people were currently being treated in hospitals, while 23 of them were in serious condition.

He added that a day of mourning would be observed in the city on Sunday for the victims of the attack.

On Friday, Vilkul stated that the largest shopping complex in the city was attacked by Russian drones, sparking a fire.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the attack an "act of terrorism,” saying: “The attack drones struck in two waves – half an hour after the first hit and the fire, there was a second strike targeting the emergency responders.”

Russian authorities have not yet commented on the strike.

Ukrainian authorities further reported overnight strikes in the country on Saturday morning, with the Kyiv City Military Administration saying a fire broke out in an unspecified warehouse in the capital’s Darnytskyi district after reporting a ballistic missile threat over the city about an hour earlier.

“According to preliminary information, unfortunately, there is one dead and (one) injured. The relevant services are working. The information is being clarified,” the statement said, without providing further details.

Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, CEO of Ukraine’s national railway company Ukrzaliznytsia, said in a statement on US social media company Facebook that one of the company’s enterprises was hit with ballistic missiles.

He also said that the Rozdilna railway station in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region has been damaged, adding that the consequences of the attack are being eliminated and that it has not affected railway traffic.

Ukraine's Air Force claimed that it downed 182 out of 217 drones, as well as destroyed nine missiles, launched by Russia overnight.

Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a morning statement that it launched a massive strike against transportation infrastructure facilities and a logistics center in Kyiv and the surrounding Kyiv region.

It said that the strike hit the “Darnytsia” locomotive depot, where “technical maintenance and repair of the locomotive fleet was carried out, ensuring the transportation of weapons and military equipment for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”

It also claimed strikes on a logistics center in the city of Brovary in the Kyiv region, as well as on “warehouses with military equipment and fuel tanks intended for the Ukrainian Armed Forces” in the Chornomorsk and Pivdennyi ports in the Odesa region.

Strikes in Russia

A later Defense Ministry statement said Russian air defenses shot down 457 Ukrainian drones overnight over 15 regions, as well as over the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov, and Crimea, which Moscow annexed in 2014.

Vyacheslav Fedorishchev, governor of Russia’s Samara region, said that his region was targeted in a “massive” Ukrainian drone strike, claiming several dozen drones were shot down during the attack.

“Damage was sustained at one industrial facility. Additionally, a hit was recorded at the Ozon logistics complex,” Fedorishchev said, noting that several casualties are known, all of whom are receiving medical assistance.

Ozon, a Russian e-commerce company, confirmed the strike on its logistics complex in the Samara region, saying a fire broke out in its warehouse and that over 500 employees were evacuated from the site.

"Unfortunately, there were casualties. We will certainly provide them with all the necessary support," the statement said, adding that the warehouse has been closed indefinitely.

Separately, Krasnodar Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said civilian infrastructure and residential buildings in the southern region's Yeysky district came under attack, noting two children were killed and two others injured as a result.

Kondratyev said drone debris also fell on an enterprise located on the territory of the district's administrative center, and that firefighters are currently extinguishing a fire that consequently broke out.

Ukraine's General Staff claimed it struck and caused a fire at the Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery in the Samara region during an overnight attack, alleging that the facility's products are “used to supply the needs of the Russian Armed Forces.”

Moscow and Kyiv have increasingly targeted each other's logistics centers, as well as port and energy infrastructure in recent months.

Both sides deny deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure, maintaining that their strikes are directed at military targets or facilities linked to military activities.