{"id":223025,"date":"2026-09-04T05:47:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T05:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/ukraine-war-briefing-zelenskyy-vows-response-to-russias-deadly-shopping-centre-attack-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T05:47:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T05:47:05","slug":"ukraine-war-briefing-zelenskyy-vows-response-to-russias-deadly-shopping-centre-attack-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/ukraine-war-briefing-zelenskyy-vows-response-to-russias-deadly-shopping-centre-attack-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy vows response to Russia\u2019s deadly shopping centre attack – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian president calls strikes on home town Kryvyi Rih an \u2018absolute Russian atrocity\u2019 and says world must \u2018not remain silent\u2019. What we know on day 1,641
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has vowed to hit back at Russia after its deadly attack on <\/strong>a shopping centre in central Ukraine. At least 16 people were killed and more than 130 wounded, authorities said, when drones on hit the mall<\/a> in Kryvyi Rih in what the Ukrainian president called a \u201ccynical and despicable\u201d attack on Friday. In an evening video post on social media<\/a>, Zelenskyy said of the strikes in his home town: \u201cAn absolute Russian atrocity. They\u2019re just monsters. We will definitely respond.\u201d He added: \u201cIt is important that we have everything to protect life. It is important that the world does not remain silent about all this. There must be an end to this Russian war \u2013 and we need the world to help us make that happen.\u201d The EU\u2019s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, condemned the attack as \u201cterror by design\u201d and threatened \u201cthe most far-reaching Russia sanctions listings since the start of the war\u201d. Four more people, including three minors, were killed in another strike in the southern Mykolaiv region on Friday, said the interior minister, Ivan Vygivsky.
Russian strikes on Ukraine killed at least two people early on Saturday, local authorities said. <\/strong>The Kyiv city military administration reported a fire in a warehouse in the capital\u2019s Darnytskyi district after issuing an alert for a ballistic missile. One person died and several were injured, it said, citing preliminary information. In the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, a Russian drone killed a man and wounded four people, according to the regional military administration\u2019s chief, Ivan Fedorov.
Countries allied with Ukraine are to meet on Monday to reaffirm support for Kyiv <\/strong>in the war, at talks held on Ukraine\u2019s independence day. The meeting of the so-called Coalition of the Willing will be co-chaired by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, the UK prime minister, Andy Burnham, and the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz. About 10 leaders including the European Council chief, Ant\u00f3nio Costa, will be in Kyiv for the meeting, according to an EU official. Zelenskyy urged a strong response from Ukraine\u2019s allies after Russia\u2019s shopping centre attack, saying: \u201cThe world must respond to them accordingly \u2013 with real pressure on the aggressor. For peace to be possible, Russia must face real accountability.\u201d
Germany is seeking to extradite a suspect from Romania over the discovery of an underground stash of weapons in a forest near Berlin that German media reports have linked to Russian intelligence<\/strong>, reports Deborah Cole<\/a>. Two weeks after German authorities found a drone carrying explosives at Leipzig airport, the interior minister confirmed federal prosecutors had opened an investigation related to the secret cache of guns \u201con suspicion of preparing a serious act of violence that threatens national security\u201d. \u201cThis case demonstrates that \u200cwe are operating under a high threat level,\u201d Alexander Dobrindt told reporters.
Ukraine has sanctioned Russian hit children\u2019s cartoon Masha and the Bear and its producers in a step towards banning the series<\/strong>, the Ukrainian culture minister said on Friday, slamming it as a Russian \u201cpropaganda\u201d tool. The cartoon about a little girl and a retired circus bear has been viewed tens of billions of times on YouTube alone and broadcast in about 100 countries but has faced criticism in Ukraine and among its allies, including the UK and Estonia, as painting Russia in a positive light. The Kremlin has laughed off the allegations.<\/p>\n

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