Ukraine hits Wildberries warehouses; five killed near Moscow
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- Ukraine struck three Wildberries warehouse sites overnight Monday — in the St Petersburg region, Tver region, and near Moscow in Chekhov — while local officials confirmed a fourth Wildberries warehouse in the Samara region, hit Sunday, was completely destroyed along with all goods stored there.
- Moscow region governor Andrei Vorobyov said a warehouse caught fire at the Chekhov industrial site 69km south of the Kremlin, killing at least five and injuring 10; Ukrainian media reported the site was linked to Wildberries, and the company confirmed its St Petersburg facility was hit.
- Russia's defence ministry said it intercepted and destroyed 320 drones overnight; Kyiv says the depots supply the Russian military, a claim Moscow denies.
- Russian strikes across Ukraine killed at least four overnight, including an 89-year-old woman and girls aged two and 12 hit in the southern port city of Mykolaiv, and a woman and two girls aged five and 10 killed in a residential area of Sumy.
- A day earlier, a drone struck a beach in Russia's Krasnodar region, killing seven and injuring 58; Ukrainian Telegram channels claimed electronic warfare jammed the drone's signal, while Russian media quoted eyewitnesses saying gunfire preceded the blast, indicating possible air-defense attempts.
- Wildberries — often dubbed the "Russian Amazon" — has now been hit at multiple sites in recent weeks, with the Samara depot's total destruction marking the most severe confirmed loss.
Why it matters: The pattern — three Wildberries sites hit in one night plus the prior total loss of the Samara warehouse — shows Ukraine systematically targeting commercial logistics infrastructure it says serves Russia's military, while Russia returns fire killing Ukrainian children. Moscow's claim of intercepting 320 drones in a single night underscores the nightly scale of the aerial exchange between the two sides, both of which deny targeting civilians.
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