In brief
Ukrainian drones hit two Wildberries warehouses overnight, the Russian e‑commerce giant touted as the “Russian Amazon”. Five people were killed and 10 injured near Moscow, while the company confirmed damage to a site in St. Petersburg. Russian forces claimed to have intercepted 320 drones and reported 10 casualties in Ukrainian strikes. The attacks highlight the escalating war over logistics hubs and the blurred line between civilian and military supply routes.
Ukrainian drones hit Wildberries warehouses in Russia, killing five
Ukrainian forces carried out nighttime drone attacks that struck two Wildberries warehouses in Russia and damaged a third site close to Moscow. Five people died and ten others were injured in the blast near the Kremlin’s suburb of Chekhov.
Wildberries, the country’s largest online retailer, has been a target for Ukrainian attacks amid allegations that its distribution centres support Russian military logistics. The company confirmed that a facility in the St. Petersburg region suffered damage and that a site in Tver was also hit.
Russian officials claimed that 320 drones were intercepted and destroyed that night, while reports of Ukrainian strikes on Ukrainian towns continued: 4 civilians were killed in southern port city of Mykolaiv and several others injured across Sumy, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi and Dnipro.
The Ukrainian side says it was targeting logistics hubs, while Moscow denies any supply of weapons to Ukrainian forces. Both sides maintain that civilians are not deliberately targeted.
The latest raid adds to a growing list of blows to critical supply networks, heightening the war’s impact on non‑combatant infrastructure and sparking a new round of political and military responses from both sides.
