Ukraine–Russia

Russian strike on a Kharkiv shopping centre kills one; drone hits Epicentr store

ATTACK
Location
Kharkiv
Actors
Russia · Ukraine
Importance
Standard

One person was killed and two were injured in a lunchtime attack on a shopping centre in Kharkiv, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said, and a drone hit an Epicentr hypermarket in the same city, part of a day of Russian strikes on Ukrainian retail and logistics.

Al Jazeera grouped the Kharkiv strikes with attacks the same day on warehouses in Kyiv Oblast belonging to the Fora and Kolo supermarket chains, House of Toys, Comfy, Avrora and a Roshen confectionery depot. The drone is the only weapon the source names for this city, so it is the only mechanism declared; the launch origin was not reported and the direction shown is an explicitly illustrative one from the initiator’s area.

  • Fatalities: Best 1 people · Confidence: Probable · Evidence: Russia warns it could target UK in response to Kyiv firing British missiles · Reported by regional governor Oleh Syniehubov.
  • Injuries: Best 2 people · Confidence: Probable · Evidence: Russia warns it could target UK in response to Kyiv firing British missiles

Verification: Probable

Evidence: Russia warns it could target UK in response to Kyiv firing British missiles

Single canonical source relaying the regional governor; the shopping centre was not named and the weapon on it was not specified beyond the drone reported at the Epicentr store.