Russian drone strike on Pavlohrad mall kills four, wounds 60

September 10, 2026 at 11:41 PM2 min

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A Russian drone struck a shopping mall in Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk region, on Thursday, killing four people and wounding 60, Ukrainian officials said. The daylight attack hit shops and vehicles when streets were full of people, Interior Minister Ivan Vyhivskyi said. President Volodymyr Zelensky offered condolences to the families of those killed.

Key Facts

Four people were killed and 60 wounded in the drone attack on the Pavlohrad shopping mall, according to Ukrainian officials.
Interior Minister Ivan Vyhivskyi said the attack occurred when streets were full of people.
Two of the injured were members of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, and a child was also hurt.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said the Russians used drones to kill people standing near shopping centres.
Russia reported a Ukrainian seaborne drone attack on Sochi overnight on Wednesday that wounded 28 people, including two children.

The Attack

The State Emergency Service of Ukraine released images showing firefighters directing water hoses at burning vehicles amid clouds of smoke on a street in Pavlohrad. Pavlohrad, a logistics hub near Dnipro, had previously come under heavy attack, with two people killed in an attack on warehouses there last month. Two other shopping malls, in Zaporizhzhia and Sumy, were targeted by Russian air strikes earlier this week, according to Ukrainian media.

Regional Strikes

A Russian drone attack on a mall in Sumy on Wednesday killed two people and wounded 20. On Thursday, Russian aerial bombing injured eight people in Sumy, including three children. In Zaporizhzhia, a shopping mall was almost completely destroyed on Monday, but it was closed at the time and no casualties were reported. Last month, Russian drones killed at least 16 people and injured 130 in the city of Kryvyi Rih.

Russian Reports

Russian officials reported that a Ukrainian drone strike on the town of Novy Oskol in Belgorod Region killed one person and wounded six others on Thursday. A Ukrainian drone attack was reported on Monday on a mall in the port city of Mariupol, Donetsk region. A new peacemaking effort by envoys sent by US President Donald Trump at the weekend appears to have yielded few concrete results after talks in Moscow and Kyiv.