Russian Overnight Strikes Kill at Least 6, Wound 38 Nationwide; Zaporizhzhia Shopping Mall Hit

Russian forces launched a nationwide overnight strike wave into September 21, killing at least 6 people and wounding 38 across Ukraine, per regional officials. Ukraine's Air Force said it intercepted 148 of 172 attack drones and downed an S-8000 Banderol hybrid weapon. The heaviest single strike hit Zaporizhzhia, where drones struck the Intrade shopping centre, a higher-education building, and two apartment high-rises (one catching fire), with 8 wounded and residents evacuated, according to Regional Military Administration head Ivan Fedorov; Ukrinform separately reported 928 Russian strikes across 55 settlements in Zaporizhzhia Oblast over the preceding 24 hours. Donetsk Oblast recorded the highest toll, with 3 killed and 12 wounded (Gov. Vadym Filashkin); Kharkiv Oblast reported 1 killed and 5 wounded, including casualties from a drone strike near Lozova (Gov. Oleh Syniehubov); Sumy Oblast reported 2 killed and 3 wounded, including a 14-year-old, with a drone strike near an apartment building killing a 38-year-old woman and wounding her 41-year-old husband; Kherson Oblast reported 9 wounded; and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast reported 1 wounded overnight plus 1 death attributed to an earlier September 3 strike. A supermarket warehouse was struck in Odesa (no casualties) and an agricultural facility was damaged in a Chernihiv Oblast border village.