Kyiv's forces are continuing their relentless aerial campaign against energy infrastructure and military targets inside Russia.
Eight people were killed and more than 60 others were wounded in Russia by overnight Ukrainian drone attacks, Russia n officials said Saturday.against energy infrastructure and military targets inside Russia, aiming to undermine Moscow's war effort and make Russia ns feel the consequences of the Kremlin's all-outTwo sprawling warehouses of Russia's major online retailer, Wildberries, were hit by Ukrainian drones overnight, according to Russia n officials: one in the town of Kotovsk in the Tambov region, about 220 miles from the border with Ukraine, and another one in the city of Elektrostal, about 30 miles east of Moscow.
Both caught fire, but Wildberries founder Tatyana Kim said later on Saturday morning that the fire in Kotovsk has been put out. Images and footage released by Russian online outlets showed a fire raging at the Elektrostal facility, with massive plumes of smoke towering over it.
A Ukrainian drone also hit an oil depot in the city of Noginsk, just north of Elektrostal, sparking a fire and prompting evacuations of a nearby maternity hospital and a residential building, according to the governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov. A building damaged during a Ukrainian drone attack in Elektrostal, Moscow region of Russia, on July 18, 2026.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a Telegram post on Saturday that Ukrainian long-range strikes hit two"significant logistical facilities in the Moscow and Tambov regions.
" "These facilities were used by the aggressor to supply sanctioned components for the production of drones and navigation equipment," he wrote. An oil facility was also hit, he said. Seven night shift workers were killed at the warehouse in Kotovsk, and 25 others were wounded, Tambov regional governor Yevgeny Pervyshov said. A total of 37 people were wounded in the Moscow region, Vorobyov said, adding that one of those later died in the hospital.
In Elektrostal, drone debris also hit a kindergarten building, Vorobyov said, sparking a fire that has since been put out. In the city of Vladimir, about 110 miles east of Moscow, a Ukrainian drone hit a residential building, sparking a brief fire, Vladimir governor Alexander Avdeyev said. There were no casualties, he added. Ukrainian special operations also conducted strikes against targets in the Sea of Azov and in occupied territory, Zelenskyy said.
Overall, the Russian Defense Ministry said its air defenses overnight intercepted 379 Ukrainian drones over 19 Russian regions, as well as the illegally annexed Crimea, the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.
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