MOSCOW — At least eight people were killed and more than 60 others were wounded in overnight Ukrainian drone attacks across Russia, Russian officials said on Saturday.
Among the sites hit were two warehouses belonging to Russian online retailer Wildberries in the Tambov and Moscow regions. Both facilities caught fire after being struck by drones, authorities said.
Tambov regional governor Yevgeny Pervyshov said seven workers were killed and 25 others injured in the attack on the warehouse in Kotovsk, about 360 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
In the Moscow region, a drone strike ignited an oil depot in Noginsk, prompting the evacuation of a nearby maternity hospital and a residential building, Governor Andrei Vorobyov said. He added that 37 people were injured in the region, with one later dying in hospital.
Drone debris also struck a kindergarten in the city of Elektrostal, causing a fire that was later extinguished.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the attacks targeted two “significant logistical facilities” in the Moscow and Tambov regions that were allegedly used to supply sanctioned components for drone production and navigation equipment. He also said an oil facility was successfully struck.
Ukraine’s General Staff said its forces also targeted the Noginsk fuel depot, two oil tankers, two floating cranes, a tugboat in the Black and Azov seas, a Russian patrol ship near Kerch, and a railway bridge in the occupied Luhansk region used for military logistics.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said its air defense systems intercepted 379 Ukrainian drones overnight over 19 regions, as well as over the annexed Crimean Peninsula, the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.
The latest attacks are part of Ukraine’s expanding campaign to strike Russian military, energy and logistics infrastructure deep inside the country as the war enters its fifth year.
Source: Saudi Gazette