Nine killed, more than 80 wounded in Ukrainian drone attack on Russian regions
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- Ukrainian drones struck two Wildberries warehouses — in Kotovsk (Tambov region, 360km from the Ukrainian border) and Elektrostal (50km east of Moscow) — plus an oil depot in Noginsk, killing nine people and wounding more than 80 across the attacks.
- Wildberries founder Tatyana Kim confirmed both warehouses caught fire; seven night shift workers were killed at Kotovsk and 25 others wounded there, while the Moscow region saw 61 wounded and one additional death from injuries.
- President Zelensky said the hit Moscow and Tambov facilities were used to supply sanctioned components for Russian drone production and navigation equipment, framing the civilian-commercial sites as military targets.
- Ukraine's General Staff said the Noginsk fuel depot supplied Russian armed forces, and separately reported striking two tankers, two floating cranes, a tugboat, and a Project 10410 Svetlyak-class patrol ship in the Black and Azov seas.
- Ukraine also struck a railway bridge over the Bila River near Sabivka in occupied Luhansk used for Russian military logistics, a residential building in Vladimir (no casualties), and killed one person in a Saturday afternoon strike on Belgorod region.
- Russia's Defence Ministry claimed its air defences intercepted 379 Ukrainian drones overnight across 19 Russian regions plus Crimea, the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.
Why it matters: Ukraine is now publicly justifying strikes on civilian-commercial infrastructure by tying it to Russian military supply chains — Zelensky explicitly named drone-component production as the target. The campaign also hit Black Sea naval logistics and an occupied-region rail bridge, broadening the battlefield beyond Ukrainian territory and into the sea and Crimean approaches.
