Regional governors reported on Saturday that waves of Ukrainian drone assaults killed seven warehouse workers and injured scores more, while another attack caused an oil storage in the larger capital region to catch fire.
In Kotovsk, in the Tambov area, around 475 kilometers (295 miles) southeast of Moscow, Ukrainian drones crashed into a warehouse owned by Wildberries, Russia’s biggest online store, injuring 25 people, according to Governor Evgeniy Pervyshov.
Pervyshov said on Telegram that “seven people working the night shift died on the spot” and that “28 drones were shot down on approach.”
“If they had achieved their goal, the number of civilian casualties could have been much higher,” he stated.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the president of Ukraine, claimed Kyiv had attacked two logistics facilities that Russia used to deliver parts for drone manufacturing and navigation technology.Zelenskiy said on X that an oil facility was also hit.
Andrei Vorobyov, the governor of the Moscow area, reported that a drone strike on another Wildberries facility in Elektrostal, a city east of Moscow, resulted in 24 injuries.
Tatyana Kim, co-founder and CEO of Wildberries, expressed her sympathies to the families of the dead and said that it had been a “terrible night” for both Russia and the company.
According to Vorobyov, an oil store in the Moscow region’s city of Noginsk caught fire due to falling drone debris.
He stated that a neighboring maternity hospital had been evacuated and that two people had been hurt in Noginsk, but he did not explain the extent of the facility’s damage.
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