Ukrainian drone attacks have killed at least eight people at warehouses in Russia, according to regional officials. The attacks, which are the most lethal Ukrainian strikes reported inside Russia in more than two years, targeted facilities belonging to a Russian company, Wildberries, a major online retailer.
Details of the Attacks
Seven of those killed were working at a distribution center at Kotovsk in the Tambov region. The eighth fatality was at a similar center in Elektrostal in the Moscow region. Twenty-five people were injured, seven of them critically, in the strike in Tambov, according to the region’s governor, Yevgeniy Pervyshov.
The drones used in the attacks were equipped with warheads designed to cause a greater number of casualties, Pervyshov claimed, adding that 28 had been shot down. In addition to the man killed at the plant in Elektrostal, 37 people were injured, eight seriously, according to Andrey Vorobiev, governor of the Moscow region.
Ukraine has acknowledged carrying out the attacks, stating that the facilities were being used to supply sanctioned components for drone production and navigation equipment. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that two major logistics facilities were hit – in the Moscow and Tambov regions, more than 500 and nearly 700 kilometers from the front line.
Original reporting: KTVZ (Central Oregon) — read the source article.
