Five dead in Moscow as Ukraine continues warehouse strikes

What the report says

At least five people were killed and 10 others injured in a Ukrainian drone strike on a warehouse near Moscow overnight, according to the governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, as reported by BBC World News. The strike hit an industrial site in Novoselki, in Chekhov, south of the Russian capital, and sparked a fire. The local official did not identify the target, but the BBC said the attack came amid a series of recent Ukrainian strikes on facilities linked to Wildberries, a major Russian e-commerce company often compared to Amazon. Kyiv has said such depots are used to support the Russian military, a claim Moscow rejects.

BBC World News also reported that warehouses associated with Wildberries were struck in Russia’s St Petersburg and Tver regions overnight. The company publicly confirmed damage at its St Petersburg site, though it did not comment further on the Moscow-area attack.

The overnight exchange of strikes extended beyond Russia. Ukraine’s emergency service said Russian attacks killed an 89-year-old woman in Mykolaiv and injured several other civilians, including children. Additional damage was reported in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi and Dnipro. Russia’s defence ministry said it intercepted and destroyed 320 drones overnight. The reported attacks underline the continued use of long-range drones in the war and the vulnerability of logistics and warehouse sites far from the front line.