Warehouse workers among 8 dead in deadliest Ukrainian attacks inside Russia for two years

 

Ukrainian drone attacks have killed at least eight people at warehouses in Russia, according to regional officials.

Seven of those killed were working at a distribution center at Kotovsk in the Tambov region. The eighth fatality was at a similar center in Elektrostal in the Moscow region.

The attacks are the most lethal Ukrainian strikes reported inside Russia in more than two years.

Both the facilities struck belonged to a Russian company, Wildberries, a major online retailer. Ukraine says the facilities were used in drone manufacture.

Twenty-five people were injured, seven of them critically, in the strike in Tambov, according to the region’s governor, Yevgeniy Pervyshov.

The drones “were equipped with warheads designed to cause a greater number of casualties,” Pervyshov claimed, adding 28 had been shot down.

In addition to the man killed at the plant in Elektrostal, 37 people were injured, eight seriously, according to Andrey Vorobiev, governor of the Moscow region.

A view shows a damaged building of a kindergarten following a Ukrainian drone attack, according to regional authorities, in the town of Elektrostal, in Russia's Moscow region, on July 18, 2026.

Governor of Moscow region Andrei Vorobyov/Reuters

Ukraine has acknowledged carrying out the attacks.

“Two major logistics facilities were hit – in the Moscow and Tambov regions, more than 500 and nearly 700 kilometers from the front line,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday.