ATTACKS INSIDE RUSSIA
On Saturday, Ukraine sent attack drones to destroy e-commerce warehouses in the Moscow and Tambov regions, killing eight people and causing major fires.
In Ukraine, Russian strikes killed five people and wounded almost 20 others in regions stretching the country’s southeast Saturday.
“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,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had said on X.
He alleged the centres were used “to supply sanctioned components for drone production and navigation equipment”.
Kyiv has in recent months intensified its strikes on Russian territory, disrupting the lives of ordinary Russians – strikes it calls retribution for more than four years of bombardments against its territory.
The campaign, which Kyiv calls “long-range sanctions”, has mostly targeted Russia’s oil infrastructure, triggering a full-blown fuel crisis in one of the world’s biggest oil-producing countries.
More than 370 drones were launched toward the Moscow region overnight, said the mayor of the Russian capital, Sergei Sobyanin.
Between Jul 11 and Jul 18, almost 1,892 Ukrainian drones heading towards Moscow were intercepted, he added.
