Russian strikes hit Epicenter stores in four Ukrainian cities

Russian forces attacked Epicenter hypermarket facilities in four Ukrainian cities within 24 hours, including Poltava, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Vinnytsia, according to local authorities and the company. A drone strike in Poltava caused a fire and injured a 52-year-old woman. In Zaporizhzhia, an FPV drone hit near a public transport stop, wounding three men aged 53, 68, and 62, as reported by regional military administration head Mykhailo Semikin. In Kharkiv, strikes on a shopping center and civilian enterprise injured four people, including three emergency workers. Separately, a 62-year-old man died in hospital in Dnipropetrovsk region, raising the death toll from a strike on a residential building in Synelnykove to four, with 13 injured. President Volodymyr Zelensky reported Russia used about 1,600 guided bombs, 48 missiles, and nearly 2,300 drones against Ukraine over the past week.