A drone strike on an industrial zone outside the Russian capital killed five people and wounded six others, the region’s governor said as Moscow and Kyiv traded attacks.
Ukraine has conducted long-range strikes targeting civilian infrastructure in Russia, and in recent weeks stepped up attacks on warehouses belonging to the Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries.
Ukraine often fires hundreds of drones into Russia each night, in retaliation for Russia launching hundreds of its own drones and dozens of missiles at Ukrainian towns and cities.
Moscow’s regional governor Andrey Vorobyov said early Tuesday that several fires broke out following a drone strike in the Novoselki industrial zone outside the Russian capital.
‘According to preliminary information, five people were killed and a further six wounded,’ he said on Telegram.
Drones also damaged a warehouse near Krasny Bor in northwestern Russia, wounding one person, according to Leningrad regional governor Aleksandr Drozdenko.
Footage from the attack showed at least one drone careering into the site, before exploding.
The building was later seen engulfed in flames as smoke poured out of the top. Footage taken from further away from the logistics facility showed a huge tower of smoke rising into the air.
Ukraine has conducted long-range strikes targeting civilian infrastructure in Russia
Ukraine struck a Wildberries warehouse near Krasny Bor
A huge pillar of smoke was seen rising from the site
In the Tver region, to the north-west of Moscow, another Wildberries facility was damaged by drones, Vitaly Korolyov, the acting regional governor said. Nobody was hurt in that attack.
Kyiv has sought to disrupt the operations of Wildberries, which has become a linchpin of the Russian economy.
Its CEO and founder Tatyana Kim has called the Ukrainian attacks – which have targeted more than a dozen Wildberries sites since July 18 – ‘acts of terrorism’.
On Sunday night, Russia was forced to shoot down nearly 1,200 drones sent by Ukraine.
One of these drones struck a beach near Vladimir Putin’s £1billion palace bolthole.
Russia claimed that 11 people were killed in the alleged attack on the town of Arkhipo-Osipovka, near the Black Sea resort of Gelendzhik.
Among those allegedly killed were three children. A further 40 people were injured, with 21 needing to go to hospital.
Ukraine also attacked a Russian cargo ship overnight off the coast of Novorossiysk in the Black Sea.
Footage from the attack showed several shipping containers on fire as the ship, named ‘Nadezhda’, stood still. Local media reported that Ukraine sent up to seven drones.
Footage from the attack showed several shipping containers on fire as the ship, named ‘Nadezhda’, stood still
Crew members on the Nadezhda were injured in the attack
Smoke could be seen billowing out of its bow. Additional footage, taken from the deck of the ship, showed bloodied members of crew recovering from the attack.
It also showed damage across the full length of the ship, though the attack appears to have been concentrated at the front.
TASS, Russia’s state news agency, said last night that the crew had been evacuated following last night’s attack on the Nadezhda.
TASS also said that damage to the ‘ship’s living premises and bow’ was suffered, adding that there were 22 crew members onboard, including 13 Turkish nationals.
They have all since been evacuated, though three are said to be in a critical condition.
For its part, Russian attacks killed two children and an elderly woman in Sumy in Ukraine’s north-east overnight.
‘Two children and an elderly woman were killed in Russian [guided aerial bomb] strikes on Sumy tonight,’ Oleg Grygorov, the head of the regional military administration, said this morning.
‘The girls were 5 and 10 years old. The children’s bodies were recovered from under the rubble of their house.’
Smoke could be seen billowing out of the ship’s bow
Damage was seen across the full length of the ship
Shocked swimmers at the resort watch in horror as the drone explodes on the beach at Arkhipo-Osipovka
Footage of an alleged attack on the Black Sea resort Arkhipo-Osipovka shows a drone (circled) crashing into a beach packed with sunbathers and then exploding
Six guided aerial bombs struck civilian infrastructure in the city, including residential and non-residential buildings, Mr Grygorov said.
Another attack on the port city of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine killed an 89-year-old woman.
Russia said this morning that its forces hit four cargo vessels used by Ukraine’s military and a vehicle parts plant at the Ukrainian port of Chornomorsk.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said that two dry cargo ships had been hit in the Ukrainian ports of Mykolaiv and Pivdennyi on Monday evening and that two more vessels carrying weapons and military equipment to Ukrainian ports had been struck south of Odesa.
‘As a result of the strikes… the following targets were hit: in the port of Chornomorsk – the Chornomorsk Automotive Components Plant and a port terminal where the Ukrainian Armed Forces were repairing military vehicles and storing ammunition and fuel,’ the ministry said.
Russia launched its full-scale offensive against Ukraine in February 2022, and has regularly struck its neighbour, including from the Crimean peninsula.
Ukraine’s front lines were little changed in July as its forces largely stalled Russia’s momentum.
