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Drones hit Wildberries sites
Ukrainian drones struck two Wildberries warehouses across Russia, killing 9 people and wounding more than 80, Russian officials said, as the attacks targeted logistics and energy sites overnight and on Saturday afternoon.
“Ukrainian drones hit sites across Russia, killing 9, wounding over 80 Kyiv's forces have pressed their aerial campaign against targets inside Russia”
One warehouse was hit in Kotovsk in the Tambov region, about 360 kilometers from the border with Ukraine, where Tambov regional Gov. Yevgeny Pervyshov said seven night shift workers were killed and 25 others were wounded.
In the Moscow region, a second Wildberries warehouse in Elektrostal, about 50 kilometers east of Moscow, was hit and Russian officials said 61 people were wounded, with one person later dying of injuries.
ABC News also reported that a Ukrainian drone hit an oil depot in Noginsk, just north of Elektrostal, sparking a fire and prompting evacuations of a nearby maternity hospital and a residential building.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a Telegram post that Ukrainian long-range strikes hit two “significant logistical facilities in the Moscow and Tambov regions,” and he wrote that the facilities were used to supply sanctioned components for drone production and navigation equipment.
Casualty counts diverge
Russian officials described the Kotovsk strike as killing seven night-shift workers and wounding 25, while other outlets and figures varied on the overall death toll from the same wave of attacks.
DW reported that “Seven people working the night shift died at the scene,” citing Tambov regional Gov. Yevgeny Pervyshov, and it said Russian air defenses shot down 28 drones approaching the region.
In the Moscow region, DW said Andrei Vorobyov reported 61 injured across attacks in the region, and it added that one of those wounded later died from injuries sustained in the attack.
CNN described the attacks as “the most lethal Ukrainian strikes reported inside Russia in more than two years,” and it said 25 people were injured in Tambov with seven killed there, while 37 were injured in Elektrostal.
CNN also quoted Zelenskyy saying the facilities were being used “to supply sanctioned components for drone production and navigation equipment,” and it said the eighth fatality was at the Elektrostal center.
Logistics, energy, and retaliation
Beyond the warehouse strikes, Russian officials said a Ukrainian drone hit an oil depot in Noginsk, and ABC News reported evacuations of a nearby maternity hospital and a residential building as the fire was sparked.
“Ukrainian drone attacks in western Russia have killed at least eight people and wounded dozens, according to local officials, as Ukraine and Russia continue to exchange strikes”
Zelenskyy framed the attacks as retaliation and logistics disruption, writing that the strikes targeted “in response to Russian strikes on our civilian infrastructure and on our cities and communities,” while DW said the campaign aimed to weaken Moscow’s ability to sustain its invasion.
DW also reported that Ukrainian forces carried out operations against targets in the Sea of Azov and in Russian-occupied territory, and it said Ukraine’s military reported hitting oil tankers, floating cranes and a tugboat in the Black and Azov seas.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said it intercepted 379 Ukrainian drones overnight across 19 Russian regions, as well as over annexed Crimea, the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea, according to ABC News.
CNN added that Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces commander Robert Brovdi said that in the past two weeks Ukrainian drones struck 172 vessels belonging to Russia’s shadow fleet in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, tying the warehouse attacks to a broader pressure campaign.
