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Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukrainian long-range strikes hit two drone supply hubs in the Moscow and Tambov regions of Russia. Russian officials and news reports described them as warehouses of the online retailer Wildberries: one in the town of Kotovsk in the Tambov region, about 360km (220 miles) from the border with Ukraine, and another in the city of Elektrostal, about 50km (30 miles) east of Moscow. Zelenskyy said: “These facilities were used by the aggressor to supply sanctioned components for the production of drones and navigation equipment.” Elektrostal is a major centre for metallurgy and machine-building
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Zelenskyy said: “In response to Russian strikes on our civilian infrastructure and on our cities and communities, two major logistics facilities were hit – in the Moscow and Tambov regions.” The Tambov regional governor, Yevgeny Pervyshov, said seven night shift workers were killed at the warehouse in Kotovsk and 25 others wounded. Serhii Kuzan, a Ukrainian military analyst, told the BBC that Wildberries was a vital supplier to the Russian army of dual-use and sanctioned goods and electronics. One more person was killed and another wounded in a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Belgorod region on Saturday afternoon, according to local authorities.
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Ukraine’s general staff said Kyiv’s forces hit a fuel depot in Noginsk that supplies the Russian armed forces. The military also reported hitting two tankers, two floating cranes and a tugboat in the Black and Azov seas, saying the vessels were used to transport oil, fuel and military cargo. Separately, the military said it struck a Russian Project 10410 Svetlyak-class patrol ship in Kerch, describing it as the second vessel of that class hit in two days, as well as a railway bridge over the Bila River near Sabivka in the occupied Luhansk region that it said Russia used for military logistics.
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Russian missiles hit Kyiv and the surrounding region early on Sunday, killing at least one person and injuring nine others as fires broke out across the city, officials said. Powerful explosions rocked the capital as Ukraine’s air force warned of a ballistic missile threat. Fires broke out at a dormitory, a residential block and a supermarket, said the Kyiv mayor, Vitali Klitschko. Several non-residential buildings and warehouses were struck, while parked cars and office buildings were set on fire. Two people were injured in the Kyiv region, according to the military administration, and warehouses were damaged.
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Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Ruslan Kravchenko, said investigators had recovered key evidence in the case of the attempted assassination of the Ukrainian businessman Vadym Iermolaiev in Monaco. Specialists from Ukraine’s security services restored a surveillance-camera recording that suspects had allegedly attempted to destroy. According to the prosecutor general, the surveillance camera had been installed near the crime scene to obtain confirmation that the alleged contract killing had been carried out. He said the recovered footage was among key pieces of evidence in the investigation.
