Ukraine targets Moscow and Wildberries warehouse in aerial assault
The strikes against targets across Russia are some of the largest mounted by Ukraine so far, and come as Russian forces carried out attacks on Ukrainian cities.
Ukraine executed one of its most extensive aerial assaults on Russia in recent times, resulting in the burning of warehouses and the deaths of at least six individuals. This assault aimed to bring the conflict closer to the Russian people. In retaliation, Russia also launched strikes on Ukrainian cities, prompting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to call for more interceptors.
Ukraine deployed hundreds of drones across Russia on Sunday, leading to the deaths of at least six people in one of Kyiv's largest aerial attacks of the war. Kyiv has intensified its attacks on Russia throughout the year, targeting military industries, energy facilities, and the massive Wildberries warehouses, which have caused significant damage to the company's inventory.
These attacks have brought the war to the Russian public's doorstep, nearly five years after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Meanwhile, Ukraine faced Russian aggression as well, with drone strikes destroying homes and setting ablaze Kyiv's iconic book market. Russia's Ministry of Defence claimed to have destroyed 822 Ukrainian drones overnight, with around 600 drones targeted towards Moscow itself.
An 83-year-old man died after a Ukrainian drone struck a private home in the Moscow region, while a Ukrainian strike also ignited a blaze at a Wildberries warehouse in Podolsk. A Russian drone attack in the southwestern Rostov region killed five people, causing fires in several homes, a railway station, and sparking a forest fire.
A Russian missile attack on Ukraine's Kryvyi Rih resulted in two deaths and 14 injuries, with one additional fatality reported in Sumy. ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine's largest steel producer, reported that one of its sites was hit by a missile, momentarily suspending operations. Elsewhere, a man and a woman lost their lives when their home was struck by a Russian missile in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia region, according to Ivan Fedorov, the head of the local military administration.
Russian assaults ignited fires throughout Kyiv, injuring six people, including a book market in the capital, which sent thick plumes of black smoke across the city and reduced its kiosks to ashes.
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