8 killed and more than 60 wounded in Ukrainian drone attack on Russian regions
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- Ukrainian drone strikes killed 8 people and wounded more than 60 across multiple Russian regions overnight Saturday, according to Russian officials
- Two Wildberries warehouses were hit — one in Kotovsk in the Tambov region (roughly 360 km from the Ukrainian border), killing 7 night-shift workers and wounding 25, and another in Elektrostal about 50 km east of Moscow, which also caught fire
- An oil depot in Noginsk, just north of Elektrostal, was struck, sparking a fire and forcing evacuations of a nearby maternity hospital and residential building
- Zelenskyy said the long-range strikes hit "significant logistical facilities" used to supply sanctioned components for the production of Russian drones and navigation equipment, and reported separate Ukrainian special operations strikes in the Sea of Azov and occupied territory
- Russia's Defense Ministry said air defenses intercepted 379 Ukrainian drones overnight across 19 Russian regions, illegally annexed Crimea, the Sea of Azov, and the Black Sea
- Drone debris hit a kindergarten in Elektrostal, sparking a contained fire, while a separate drone struck a residential building in Vladimir roughly 180 km east of Moscow with no reported casualties
Why it matters: The strikes penetrated unusually deep — roughly 360 km from the border and within 50 km of Moscow — and targeted both commercial infrastructure (Wildberries, Russia's major online retailer) and military logistics. Zelenskyy explicitly framed the targets as part of the supply chain for Russian drone production, signaling Kyiv's intent to degrade the domestic industrial base sustaining Moscow's war effort rather than just striking energy sites.
