Ukraine Strikes 2 More Wildberries Sites, Energy Plant in Russia

Remains of the Wildberries warehouse that burned down after a recent Ukrainian drone attack in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, in the city of Elektrostal in the Moscow region, Russia, on July 23, 2026. Stringer/RussiaUkrainian forces struck two more Russian warehouses belonging to online retailer Wildberries on Thursday, while drone attacks on Friday in the Volgograd region sparked a fire at an energy facility and warehouses.The company said on June 30 that strikes on its logistics facility in Sarapul, ​Russia’s Udmurtia region, caused a fire. Employees had been evacuated in advance, and there were no preliminary reports of casualties.​A fire broke out following a strike on a Wildberries warehouse in Penza Oblast in western Russia, and one person was injured, according to regional governor Oleg Melnichenko. The person has since been released from the hospital.Melnichenko, governor of the Penza Oblast in western Russia, said in a Telegram post that several drones had been shot down on approach to the logistics center, but 15 had managed to get through and strike the facility.The strikes sparked a fire at the facility, and one person was injured, though they were later discharged from the hospital, Melnichenko said.This follows a series of recent drone strikes against the company—considered Russia’s answer to Amazon—where around a dozen of its warehouses were damaged, destroying around 10 percent of the company’s storage capacity.The first attack on Wildberries’ warehouses on July 18 killed eight workers. Ukraine has described the targets as hubs responsible for supplying Moscow’s military with components for weaponry such as drones.The Kremlin has denied that ​Wildberries handles military supplies.Fire at Energy PlantUkraine is not only targeting commercial areas that it says are supplying components for weaponry, but also oil and gas facilities.A Ukrainian drone attack on July 31 sparked a fire at an energy facility in the Volgograd ​Oblast, the region’s governor, Andrei ‌Bocharov, said.Bocharov did not give further details on the facility, but the region is home to a Lukoil-owned oil refinery.In a July 31 post on X, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that his forces will continue to carry out long- and mid-range strikes “against Russian infrastructure facilities that prop up Russia’s aggression.”Zelenskyy said that the drone strikes “are always about justified responses aimed at depriving the Russian war machine of its resources.”He said Ukrainian forces struck three logistics centers in Kazan, Sarapul, and Volgograd, as well as a maritime terminal in the Krasnodar region and an oil refinery in the Volgograd region, also conducting strikes in the Sea of Azov.Strikes on Ukrainian Military FacilitiesRussia said on July 30 that it had conducted strikes on Ukrainian military production facilities, including in Kyiv and Lviv, and struck three cargo ships in the Black Sea.The Russian Defense Ministry said it had used missiles and drones to strike a factory in Kyiv, which it said was ⁠involved in the production of Ukrainian FP-1 and FP-2 UAVs.The ministry said its forces also struck a factory in Lviv that manufactures drones and Ukrainian Flamingo cruise ​missiles.It said its forces hit a cargo ship carrying military equipment in the Odesa region, and struck two others in the south and east of Odesa, delivering arms and military goods.Reuters contributed to this report.