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Kyiv's forces are continuing their relentless aerial campaign
against energy infrastructure and military targets inside
Russia, aiming to undermine Moscow’s war effort and make
Russians feel the consequences of the Kremlin's all-out invasion
of Ukraine that is well into its fifth year.
Two sprawling warehouses of Russia's major online retailer,
Wildberries, were hit by Ukrainian drones overnight, according
to Russian officials: one in the town of Kotovsk in the Tambov
region, some 360 kilometers (roughly 220 miles) from the border
with Ukraine, and another one in the city of Elektrostal, about
50 kilometers (some 30 miles) east of Moscow.
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.
Ukrainian special operations also conducted strikes against
targets in the Sea of Azov and in occupied territory, Zelenskyy
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 24 people were wounded in
Elektrostal, according to the governor of the Moscow region,
Andrei Vorobyov.
Two more people were wounded in the Moscow region city of
Noginsk, just north of Elektrostal, where an oil depot was on
fire after a Ukrainian drone strike, Vorobyov said. A nearby
maternity hospital was evacuated as a precaution, as well as one
residential building, he added.
In the city of Vladimir, some 180 kilometers (over 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.
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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