Ukrainian drones kill 5 in Russia and set fire to Wildberries warehouse
[August 03, 2026]
Ukrainian drone strikes killed at least five people across Russia, also
hitting industrial sites and a further warehouse belonging to Russia’s
e-commerce giant Wildberries, local officials said.
Wildberries, Russia's largest online marketplace, is sometimes described
as the country’s answer to Amazon. In under two weeks, Ukraine has
struck over a dozen of the retailer’s depots, part of Kyiv’s aerial
campaign aimed at undermining Moscow's war effort, hurting its economy
and making people feel the consequences of the Kremlin’s all-out
invasion of Ukraine.
Russian air defenses overnight shot down 635 Ukrainian drones, including
over occupied Crimea and the Black and Azov Seas, according to the
Defense Ministry in Moscow. The ministry did not say how many were
launched or struck targets.
Meanwhile, Russia attacked Ukraine with 133 drones during the night, 24
of which hit targets, according to the Ukrainian air force. Later on
Sunday, separate Russian attacks on the Ukrainian cities of Zaporizhzhia
and Kharkiv killed at least two people, according to local officials.
Ukraine's campaign against Wildberries
Ukrainian drones targeted a Wildberries warehouse in the Samara region,
some 800 kilometers (500 miles) from the Russian-Ukrainian border,
according to local Gov. Vyacheslav Fedorishchev. He said a fire had
broken out but there were no casualties.
Kyiv’s campaign against Wildberries first hit the company's sites in
Elektrostal, just east of Moscow, and in the Tambov region July 18.
Strikes followed on facilities across western and southern Russia, as
well as Russian-held Crimea. At least nine people have been killed and
scores wounded.
Two people were killed as a Ukrainian drone struck a residential
building in the Saratov region east of Samara, local. Gov. Roman
Busargin said.
He added that the strikes damaged civil infrastructure in Engels, where
the deaths took place, and the regional capital, Saratov.
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A Nova Poshta postal warehouse is destroyed following Russian air
attack on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026.
(AP Photo/Yevhen Titov)
Both cities have been frequent targets for Ukrainian attacks in
recent years. Engels hosts a military airbase, while Saratov is home
to a large oil refinery.
In Russia’s Bashkortostan region further north, local Gov. Radiy
Khabirov said that air defence had repelled a large-scale drone
strike on “industrial facilities” in the city of Ufa. He did not
specify what exactly was struck, but said that a blaze was being put
out.
In the Udmurt Republic further northwest, three civilians died and
two more were wounded in a Ukrainian drone strike, according to
acting regional head Olga Abramova.
Abramova said air defenses shot down two Ukrainian drones and
“prevented an attempted attack” by Kyiv. She said a civilian car was
damaged in the strike, without clarifying if drone debris was the
cause.
In Ukraine, one person died on Sunday as a Russian guided bomb
struck a residential building in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia,
according to local administration head Ivan Fedorov. Another attack
on Sunday killed one person and set fire to a postal terminal on the
outskirts of Kharkiv, in the northwest, said regional administration
head Oleh Syniehubov.
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