Russia, Ukraine trade deadly drone strikes across regions
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- Ukrainian drones struck the Moscow region, killing five people and wounding 10 in the Chekhov municipal district, where fires erupted at the Novoselki industrial zone, governor Andrei Vorobyov said.
- Russian authorities raised the death toll from Monday's Ukrainian drone strike on the Black Sea resort of Arkhipo-Osipovka to seven, including three children, with 58 wounded and 21 hospitalized.
- Wildberries warehouses were hit in two regions — one ablaze in the Leningrad region and another sustaining partial wall damage in the Tver region's village of Emmaus.
- Russia's Defense Ministry said its air defenses shot down 320 Ukrainian drones overnight, while reporting strikes on Ukrainian ports including Chornomorsk, Mykolaiv, and Pivdennyi, damaging bulk carriers carrying military cargo.
- Russian glide bombs killed an 89-year-old woman and wounded seven others in Mykolaiv, while six bombs on Sumy region killed three including girls aged 5 and 10, regional officials said.
- Russian strikes on Kharkiv and 18 surrounding towns killed one person and injured seven others including an 8-year-old over 24 hours, per regional head Oleh Syniehubov.
Why it matters: The reciprocal strikes illustrate how the drone war has expanded to target each side's economic and civilian infrastructure far behind the front lines — with Wildberries warehouses and Black Sea beach resorts now in the crosshairs. The UN-cited toll of more than 16,000 Ukrainian civilians killed by Russian aerial attacks underscores the asymmetric human cost despite Ukraine's growing long-range drone capabilities.
