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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Croft

Ukraine launches hundreds of drones in one of its largest aerial attacks in war against Russia

  • Ukraine launched one of its largest-ever aerial drone attacks in the war against Russia on Sunday, deploying hundreds of drones across multiple regions, resulting in six deaths and damaging infrastructure, including a Wildberries warehouse in Podolsk.
  • Ukraine attacked the warehouse belonging to Russian online retailer Wildberries in a huge overnight air attack that included more than 800 drones, Russian authorities said.
  • The Russian Defence Ministry said it had destroyed 822 drones overnight, with 600 directed towards the capital. Moscow does not confirm the total number of drones fired by Kyiv in its daily updates.
  • At the same time, Russian missile and drone strikes across Ukraine killed five people and wounded at least 20, causing severe damage to a major steel plant in Kryvyi Rih and destroying Kyiv's landmark Pochaina book market. Russia targetted Ukrainian military-industrial sites including a facility producing Flamingo long-range missiles, which President Volodymyr Zelenskyy revealed had recently been used to hit a rocket research centre in Samara, 900 kilometres inside Russia.
  • Ukraine has increasingly targetted Russian military industries, energy facilities, and commercial logistics hubs to bring the impact of the war directly to the Russian public nearly four and a half years into Moscow's full-scale invasion.

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