A Ukrainian Drone Strike on an Industrial Park Outside Moscow Killed Five, as Kyiv Keeps Hitting Russia's Answer to Amazon

A Ukrainian drone strike on an industrial zone just outside Moscow killed five people and wounded 10 others early Tuesday, the region's governor said, part of an overnight wave that hit three warehouses across Russia.

Moscow regional governor Andrey Vorobyov said on Telegram that several fires broke out in the Novoselki industrial zone after the strike. "According to preliminary information, five people were killed," he wrote, adding that 10 more were wounded. Drones also damaged a warehouse near Krasny Bor in northwestern Russia, wounding one person, according to Leningrad regional governor Aleksandr Drozdenko, and struck a third facility in the rural area of Emmaus, roughly 112 miles northwest of Moscow, regional governor Vitaly Korolyov said.

Two of the three were operated by Wildberries, the online retailer often called the Russian Amazon. The company confirmed a fire at its Krasny Bor logistics facility. Wildberries accounts for as much as 10% of Russia's entire retail turnover, according to Russian media, and since 2022 it has been accused of helping Russians route around Western sanctions by importing branded goods through third countries — which is a plausible reason Kyiv has stepped up attacks on its warehouses in recent weeks.

The exchange runs both ways, and Tuesday was no exception. In Sumy, in northeastern Ukraine, Russian guided aerial bombs killed three people overnight. "Two children and an elderly woman were killed in Russian [guided aerial bomb] strikes on Sumy tonight," said Oleg Grygorov, head of the regional military administration, who said six bombs hit civilian infrastructure including residential buildings. In the southern port city of Mykolaiv, an 89-year-old woman was killed, according to regional military administration head Georgy Reshetilov. Russia launched 136 drones at Ukraine overnight; Ukraine's air force said 117 were shot down or intercepted.

The pattern — hundreds of drones fired in each direction, with civilians dying on both sides of the line — has intensified. The United Nations has reported an increase in civilian deaths in the conflict through 2026, four and a half years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022 and with no peace deal in sight.

The deadliest recent incident remains unclaimed. On Monday, a drone hit a crowded beach in Russia's Krasnodar region, killing seven people. Social media footage verified by CBS News shows the drone flying toward the packed shoreline before hitting the ground and exploding. Venyamin Kondratyev, the regional governor, said Ukraine was responsible; Kyiv has not commented publicly. Drones have crash-landed off target throughout the war because both sides use heavy electronic jamming to defend against them, and it is not clear whether the beach was struck deliberately.

Separately, Moscow-installed authorities in occupied Crimea said Tuesday that an unidentified soldier opened fire and killed a fellow serviceman along with three civilians. Russia has regularly used the peninsula as a launch point for strikes on Ukrainian territory since seizing it in 2014.