Drone strikes kill civilians in Russia and Ukraine

A Ukrainian drone strike on an industrial zone outside Moscow killed at least five people and wounded 10 overnight, Russian officials said Tuesday, as Russia and Ukraine traded large-scale attacks that also left at least four people dead in Ukraine.

Moscow regional governor Andrey Vorobyov said several fires broke out after drones hit the Novoselki industrial zone in Chekhov, about 43 miles south of the Kremlin. “According to preliminary information, five people were killed,” he wrote on Telegram.

Vorobyov said 10 people were injured, including seven in moderate condition and one in serious condition. He did not specify the target, but the BBC reported that Ukrainian media identified the site as linked to Wildberries, the major Russian e-commerce company often called the “Russian Amazon.”

Local Russian officials said Ukrainian drones also targeted Wildberries warehouses in the St. Petersburg and Tver regions. Leningrad regional governor Aleksandr Drozdenko said a drone damaged a warehouse near Krasny Bor in northwestern Russia and wounded one person. Wildberries said a fire broke out at its Krasny Bor logistics facility as a result of the attack.

In the Tver region, governor Vitaly Korolyov said another Wildberries warehouse was targeted in the rural area of Emmaus, about 112 miles northwest of Moscow. Wildberries has not publicly commented on the Moscow-area strike, the BBC reported.

Ukraine has stepped up attacks in recent weeks on Wildberries facilities. Kyiv says the depots are used to supply the Russian military, an allegation Moscow denies, according to the BBC. CBS News reported that Wildberries accounts for up to 10% of Russia’s retail turnover, according to Russian media, and that since the start of the war it has been accused of helping Russians bypass Western sanctions by importing branded goods through third countries.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said it intercepted and destroyed 320 drones overnight.

Russia also launched strikes across Ukraine overnight. Ukraine’s air force said Moscow fired 136 drones at Ukraine, 117 of which were shot down or intercepted.

In the northeastern city of Sumy, Russian guided aerial bomb strikes killed three people, Ukrainian officials said. “Two children and an elderly woman were killed in Russian (guided aerial bomb) strikes on Sumy tonight,” Oleg Grygorov, head of the regional military administration, wrote on Telegram. Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said the victims were a woman and two girls, ages 5 and 10, and that four other people were injured.

Grygorov said six guided aerial bombs struck civilian infrastructure in Sumy, including residential and non-residential buildings.

In the southern port city of Mykolaiv, an 89-year-old woman was killed in a Russian strike, according to regional military administration head Georgy Reshetilov. Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said seven people were injured there, including two girls, ages 2 and 12.

The emergency service also said Russian strikes injured two people in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi and set a food warehouse on fire in Dnipro.

The overnight attacks followed a drone explosion Monday on a crowded beach in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region. Russian officials said seven people were killed and 58 injured. Social media footage verified by CBS News and the BBC showed a drone crashing and exploding as people stood on the shore and in the water.

Krasnodar governor Venyamin Kondratyev accused Ukraine of striking the Black Sea resort and called it “a deliberate strike on civilians,” according to the BBC. Ukraine has not commented publicly. Some Ukrainian Telegram channels claimed the drone crashed onto the beach after electronic warfare jammed its signal, while eyewitnesses quoted by Russian media said gunfire preceded the explosion, suggesting air defenses may have tried to shoot it down.

Both sides deny deliberately targeting civilians. The United Nations has reported an uptick in civilian deaths in the conflict throughout 2026 as the war continues with no peace deal in sight.