Russia says at least seven killed in largest Ukrainian attack of 2026
Russia says at least seven killed in largest Ukrainian attack of 2026. The KRAK 11 News hour: The World Desk, Criminal Intent, Happy Animals, Sports. Real stories from named sources, read by Chip Marlowe and Deb Sarkissian.
Aired 2026-08-16 16:47 UTC · 5 segments · 12 min · complete transcript below
Rundown
KRAK 11 NEWS
Good evening, Wexler County. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian. This is KRAK 11 News at the top of the hour.
Tonight we're taking you around the world and back home. The World Desk opens with the largest Ukrainian attack of twenty twenty-six — Russia confirms at least seven dead in overnight strikes.
Criminal Intent has a warrant, a crate, and a very uncomfortable trip from Jacksonville to Tennessee. Happy Animals brings you seventy-three sanctuary residents including six new alpacas.
And one emu.
And Sports takes you to the Big Island where Tropical Storm Lala is hammering Hawaii with hurricane-force winds after weakening overnight.
Still ahead on KRAK 11 News, The World Desk — Moscow and Kyiv trade the deadliest strikes of the year. That's next.
It's a full moon Thursday.
And.
And people get strange. Emergency rooms fill up. Naked plumbers run the streets.
That's not real.
My mother was a nurse. And my father was... well, I never knew my father. But that's beside the point.
Where are you going with all this.
Full moon.
Okay...
My dad was a real asshole.
THE WORLD DESK
Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian.
Before we begin, I'd like to note that I have now correctly pronounced seventeen cities this week. That's up from twelve.
Fifteen.
I'm counting Petersburg.
Petersburg was last week.
We begin tonight with the war in Ukraine, where Russia is reporting at least seven killed in what Moscow is calling the largest Ukrainian attack of the year so far.
Russia also launched deadly strikes against Ukraine overnight. Six people were injured in an attack on a market in Kyiv, a market selling second-hand records, posters, tools, and children's toys.
Fires are burning across the capital. The market was in the Podilskyi district, northwest of the city center, along the Dnieper River which runs through the heart of Ukraine connecting the eastern provinces to the western border.
The Dnieper flows south to the Black Sea.
Through the western provinces.
It does not reach the western border. It flows south.
The tributary system connects the regions, Deb. That's how rivers work.
That is not how this river works.
Indonesia now, where rescue efforts are continuing after a deadly earthquake left at least fifty-three people dead and thousands displaced.
Hundreds of homes and public buildings have been severely damaged. The quake struck Tuesday morning local time on the island of Java.
Java sits in the Indonesian archipelago just south of the Philippines, part of the Pacific Ring of Fire where seismic activity like this is a constant threat to the region.
Java is not near the Philippines.
Same tectonic zone.
Java is west of Bali. The Philippines are a thousand miles to the north.
I'm establishing the seismic context for viewers who may not be familiar with the region's geological profile.
You're establishing the wrong region.
Italian authorities are investigating the overnight theft of four Renaissance paintings from a museum in Verona. No alarms were triggered during the theft.
Museum officials are calling the paintings extraordinary and irreplaceable. Police are reviewing security footage and interviewing staff. The method suggests professional thieves.
Verona sits in northern Italy near the Swiss border, a region known both for its concentration of Renaissance masterworks and its proximity to wealthy international collectors.
Verona is not near Switzerland.
Northern Italy, Deb.
Northern Italy is large. Verona is near the Austrian border. It is eighty miles from Switzerland.
The Alpine region.
The Alps are not a border.
I'm providing geographic context so viewers understand the international implications of art theft in a border region with access to multiple countries and major transit routes.
You're providing the wrong border.
When we return: a Wexler County man arrested for the third time in six months, always for the same thing, always in the same parking lot.
Deputies say he parks in the same spot every time.
That's Criminal Intent, still ahead on KRAK 11 News.
I've been running to work.
Since when.
July.
Why have you been running.
My wife left me for a runner, so I'm running after her.
You're fat. Maybe just pick up a new wife. One you can catch.
I will get her back.
That's sweet. I'm sorry to hear about your wife. How long ago did she leave?
About nine years ago.
CRIMINAL INTENT
Good evening. I'm Chip Marlowe.
And I'm Deb Sarkissian.
Before we begin, I would like to note that the phrase 'person of interest' has been used correctly eighteen times this week across all segments.
You've used it seven times. Three were correct.
A Wexler County man has been arrested after allegedly stealing seventeen youth soccer trophies from the same storage facility over the course of six weeks. Deputies say the suspect returned on seventeen separate occasions, each time taking exactly one trophy.
Surveillance footage shows the individual entering through an unlocked side door, selecting a trophy, and leaving. The trophies were for participation. None were first place.
The suspect was apprehended Thursday evening when he returned for an eighteenth trophy and found deputies waiting inside the facility. Prosecutors allege he had been displaying them on a mantle in his apartment.
In Fairmont, a woman is facing charges after police say she attempted to return a stolen lawn mower to the hardware store it was stolen from, using a receipt she had also stolen from the same store three days earlier.
Store employees became suspicious when the serial number on the mower did not match the serial number on the receipt. Police were called. The suspect was arrested in the parking lot.
The receipt was for a different lawn mower.
A Wexler County judge has sentenced a man to six years in state prison for operating an unlicensed cryptocurrency exchange out of a rented office space. Prosecutors say the defendant defrauded investors of more than four hundred thousand dollars.
The defendant will also be required to pay restitution. Sentencing took place Thursday morning.
In Virginia, a man has been charged with grand larceny after police say he stole a riding lawn mower from a neighbor's garage, drove it two blocks to his own home, and parked it in his front yard. The victim reported the mower missing Sunday morning.
Deputies located it ninety minutes later, still running, in the suspect's yard. Police say the victim's name was written on the mower in permanent marker.
The suspect told officers he believed it had been abandoned.
The suspect is being held on twenty-five hundred dollars bond.
Deb, the segment ran tight. Crisp. That is what you want in a blotter.
Still ahead on KRAK 11 News, we have animals who are both happy and not involved in larceny.
Setting the bar very low, Deb.
It's been that kind of hour.
That's next.
Sharks tend to bite if you try to swim with them.
Why would you try to swim with sharks.
That's the whole thing about sharks.
Ugh.
After the morning segment I'm going to try to swim with a shark.
You do that.
Shark. Shark. Shark. Shark!
HAPPY ANIMALS
And now some very good news.
Gordo, is camera two closer on the desk. The framing feels different and I sent you a diagram about this Tuesday.
We're opening Happy Animals.
A greyhound rescue in Ohio has successfully placed thirty-two dogs this month, including seven that had been at the facility for more than two years.
The oldest dog placed was nine years old. A family in Akron drove four hours to meet her and she went home with them the same day.
That is exactly what you want for them.
In Vermont, a golden retriever named Biscuit has been certified as a therapy dog and will begin visiting the children's ward at Burlington Medical Center next week.
Biscuit is three years old and completed eighteen months of training.
Eighteen months. That is longer than most people stay in any job they claim to love.
And in news from our own backyard, a Fairmont woman has been reunited with her parrot after it spent six days in a tree on Sycamore Avenue, refusing all attempts at rescue.
The bird, a blue-and-gold macaw named Stanley, finally came down on his own this morning and walked through the front door.
Walked through the front door.
That is a bird that knows where he lives.
It is.
Still ahead: high school basketball returns to Wexler County, and one team has not lost an opening game in seven years. That streak is on the line Friday night, and we'll tell you which gym to watch when SPORTS is next.
I'm a finalist.
For what.
Regional Excellence in Servitude.
Who else is a finalist.
Numbers do not count.
That's exactly what numbers do. Numbers count.
Well anyway, I win and you lose.
Chip. Don't make me bitch slap you on air.
Valid point.
SPORTS
Time now for the KRAK 11 Scoreboard.
Gordo, is camera two lower than it was yesterday.
It's the same camera.
The sightline feels compromised. We'll address it after the hour. Baseball first. The Mariners swept Oakland in three games at home, taking Sunday's finale eight to four behind solid pitching from Logan Gilbert.
Seattle moves to seventy-three and sixty-eight on the season, three games back in the wild card race.
Three games back is striking distance, Deb. That's where you want to be in mid-August with the momentum of a sweep behind you.
They've been three games back since July.
Football. The Chiefs beat the Jaguars in their preseason opener Saturday night, twenty-six to thirteen. Patrick Mahomes sat out. Backup quarterback Carson Wentz threw for one hundred forty-two yards and a touchdown.
Jacksonville's Trevor Lawrence also did not play. Preseason rosters were mostly second and third string.
Which is when you see what depth looks like. Kansas City's depth won that game.
It's preseason.
Preseason is where champions are built, Deb.
Champions are built in January.
College football. Oregon opened fall camp this week with fifteen starters returning from last season's ten-and-three squad. Head coach Dan Lanning says the Ducks are focused on discipline and execution heading into their September fourth opener against Idaho.
The Ducks are ranked fourteenth in the preseason AP poll.
Fourteen is respectable. Top fifteen is where you want to be entering the season if you're serious about a playoff run.
They were ranked eleventh last year and didn't make the playoff.
Basketball. The WNBA's Phoenix Mercury defeated the Dallas Wings ninety-three to eighty-seven Sunday afternoon. Brittney Griner led all scorers with twenty-eight points and eleven rebounds in her return from a one-game suspension.
Phoenix improves to seventeen and twenty-three. Dallas falls to eight and thirty-one.
And tennis. American Jessica Pegula advanced to the quarterfinals of the Cincinnati Open with a straight-sets victory over Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, six-three, seven-five.
Pegula, seeded third, will face Poland's Iga Swiatek in the next round.
Swiatek is the number one seed and that is exactly the kind of match you want in a quarterfinal. Elite competition against the best player in the draw.
You also want to win.
That is the Scoreboard. Deb, if someone were watching this segment for the first time and had no familiarity with our sports coverage, would you say we deliver it with authority.
We're at time.
We have ninety seconds.
We're at time, Chip.
Still ahead on the next KRAK 11 News at the top of the hour: the Wexler County Sheriff's Office says a man reported his truck stolen while it was parked in his own driveway, visible through his kitchen window the entire time.
Deputies say the suspect told them he had been looking for the vehicle for three days.
That story and more, next hour.
I'm Deb Sarkissian.
I'm Chip Marlowe. Thank you for trusting KRAK 11 News.
Gordo, the camera is definitely lower.
There's a raccoon in your dressing room.
I know.
Animal control's on hold.
Tell them he's staff.
You have an arrangement with a raccoon.
He's there in the mornings. I don't make it weird.
What does he do in the afternoons.
He is at your mom's.
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- Russia says at least seven killed in largest Ukrainian attack of 2026
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- Emergency phone alert put domestic abuse victims at risk, campaigners say
- Watch: BBC visits smouldering market in Ukraine after strikes
- Four 'extraordinary' Renaissance paintings stolen from Italian museum
- Lala is again a tropical storm, sending drenching rain and winds across Hawaii
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