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Five killed and 67 injured in Russian strike on shopping centre, Ukraine says

The attack in Pavlohrad city centre was the third Russian strike on a mall within days, local media report.

BBC World

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.

"The Russians used drones to kill people who were simply standing near shopping centres," Ukraine's president said in his statement.