Russian strikes on Ukraine kill two, officials say, a day after deadly attack on mall

The lead

Attacks come a day after at least 16 people were killed in a double-tap strike on a shopping mall

Why russian matters

This development in russian, strikes, ukraine, kill, two matters because it alters the baseline assumptions that BBC and others have been working from.

What led here

What precedes russian strikes on ukraine kill two, officials say, a day after deadly attack on mall, according to BBC, is a sequence of decisions that narrowed the range of possible outcomes.

Where this fits in Signal Ledger

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The editorial angle

Signal Ledger reads this through the lens of russian, strikes, ukraine, kill, two: Attacks come a day after at least 16 people were killed in a double-tap strike on a shopping mall.