Ukraine Drone Strikes Kill Five Near Moscow
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- Moscow region governor Andrei Vorobyov said a Ukrainian drone strike hit an industrial site in Novoselki, Chekhov — about 69km south of the Kremlin — killing at least five and injuring 10, with seven in moderate condition and one in serious condition.
- Wildberries warehouses were targeted overnight in the Moscow, St Petersburg, and Tver regions; the company confirmed its St Petersburg facility was hit but has not commented on the others, while Kyiv says the depots supply Russia's military, which Moscow denies.
- Ukraine's State Emergency Service reported an 89-year-old woman was killed and two girls aged 2 and 12 were among seven injured in a Russian strike on the southern port city of Mykolaiv.
- Russian strikes killed a woman and two girls aged 5 and 10 in a residential area in Sumy, injured two more people in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, and set a food warehouse on fire in Dnipro.
- Russia's defence ministry claimed it intercepted and destroyed 320 drones overnight, but the five deaths near Moscow show the air defenses cannot stop everything at scale.
Why it matters: Ukraine's escalating strikes on Wildberries — Russia's largest e-commerce company, often dubbed the 'Russian Amazon' — target both military logistics and consumer-economy symbols, with five civilians killed just 69km from the Kremlin. The exchange is now killing children on both sides, including girls aged 2 and 12 in Mykolaiv and girls aged 5 and 10 in Sumy, while Moscow's claim of intercepting 320 drones overnight shows the aerial volume has outpaced any single defensive response.
