Attack on Ukraine shopping centre that killed 16 is ‘terror by design’, says EU foreign policy chief

<p>Kaja Kallas, the EU’s top diplomat, threatens harshest sanctions yet on Russia after strike on Kryvyi Rih, the home town of Volodymyr Zelenskyy </p><p>Russian drones have slammed into a busy shopping centre in central Ukraine, killing 16 people in an attack that Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned as “cynical and despicable”.</p><p>The EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, condemned Friday’s attack on Kryvyi Rih – the president’s home town – as “terror by design” and said she was “putting forward the most far-reaching Russia sanctions listings since the start of the war” when ministers meet in Ireland next month.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/22/ukraine-shopping-centre-attack-deaths-russia-terror-by-design-kaja-kallas-kryvyi-rih">Continue reading...</a>