In brief
In the early hours of Tuesday, a Ukrainian drone struck a warehouse in the Moscow region, claiming five lives and injuring ten others. While authorities did not confirm the target, links to Wildberries – the Russian e‑commerce giant – were cited. Ukrainian officials say these depots supply the Russian army, a claim Moscow denies. Russian air defence logged 320 drones, claiming counter‑strikes that cost four Ukrainian lives. The escalating drone conflict sees both sides targeting key infrastructure across Russia and Ukraine.
At least five people died and ten were wounded when a Ukrainian drone struck a storage facility in the Moscow region overnight, the governor of the region reported.
/ This incident is part of a broader pattern of Ukrainian strikes on warehouses run by Wildberries, Russia’s answer to Amazon.
/ Kyiv contends that these depots funnel supplies to the Russian military, but Moscow denies any link.
/ Similar attacks were reported on Wildberries sites in the St Petersburg and Tver regions.
/ Russian side claims the defence ministry intercepted and destroyed 320 drones during the night, warning of retaliatory strikes.
/ The injured included seven people in moderate condition and one in a serious state, according to a Telegram post by Governor Andrei Vorobyov.
/ Wildberries has not issued a statement, though it confirmed damage to a St Petersburg facility.
/ Ukraine’s State Emergency Service added fresh casualties: an 89‑year‑old woman killed and two girls injured in Mykolaiv; two girls and a woman died in a residential area of Sumy; and damages were noted in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi and Dnipro.
