“Two people died, 15 were injured,” said Oleksandr Hanža, head of the Dnipro regional military administration.
The stores in the shopping center were on fire, he added.
Unconfirmed videos circulated on social media show rescuers helping bleeding injured people near the shopping center.
Several videos capture how, a few minutes after the first strike, a second drone allegedly crashes into the roof of the smoking building.
Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, has suffered Russian attacks multiple times throughout the war.
The industrial city is about 60 km from the front line.
In recent months, Russia has intensified the bombing of Ukrainian cities, and the United Nations reports that the number of civilian casualties in 2026 has risen to the highest level since the early months of the war.
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