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Russian Drone and Artillery Attacks on Zaporizhzhia Hit Retail and Industry, Wound Civilians

Russian forces struck the city of Zaporizhzhia overnight with drones, setting a major retail complex ablaze and hitting an industrial site, before wounding three civilians in a separate morning attack in the surrounding district, Ukrainian authorities said. The strikes deepen the sense that both shoppers and factory workers in southern Ukraine are now living on a moving front line.

Russian attacks on and around the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia overnight and into the morning of 15 August turned both a retail complex and an industrial facility into targets, underscoring how daily life and economic activity are increasingly exposed to front‑line dynamics. Regional authorities reported that drones hit a large shopping center, igniting a fire, and also struck the territory of an industrial enterprise, while a separate morning attack wounded three local residents in the wider Zaporizhzhia district. The regional administration said unmanned aerial vehicles were used in the night‑time strikes, describing damage to an "Epicenter" retail site—a major home improvement and goods chain in Ukraine—and an unspecified industrial…

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