The attack in Pavlohrad city centre was the third Russian strike on a mall within days, local media report.
Image source, State Emergency Service of Ukraine By Patrick Jackson Published 10 September 2026 Ukrainian officials say five people were killed and 67 others were wounded when a Russian drone hit a shopping mall in Pavlohrad, a city in Dnipropetrovsk region.
Shops and vehicles were hit in the daylight attack which took place "when the streets were full of people", Interior Minister Ivan Vyhivskyi said.
Two other shopping malls - in the cities of Zaporizhzhia and Sumy - were targeted by Russian air strikes earlier this week, according to Ukrainian media.
Russia reported a Ukrainian seaborne drone attack on the resort city of Sochi overnight on Wednesday, in which 28 people were wounded, as well as three more deaths blamed on Ukrainian attacks.
A full-scale war has been raging between Russia and Ukraine since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion more than four and a half years ago.
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 with Putin and in Kyiv with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Images released by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine show firefighters directing water hoses at burning vehicles amid clouds of smoke on a street in Pavlohrad.
In a Telegram post, regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha said of the 67 people injured, eight are children.
Zelensky offered his condolences to the families and loved ones of those killed in Thursday's attack.
"The Russians used drones to kill people who were simply standing near shopping centres," Ukraine's president said in his statement.
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