{"id":25330,"date":"2026-08-07T09:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T09:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/25330\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T09:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T09:06:07","slug":"ukrainian-drones-strike-another-warehouse-of-russias-top-online-retailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/25330\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian drones strike another warehouse of Russia\u2019s top online retailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian long-range drones hit a warehouse in the Ural Mountains belonging to Russia\u2019s biggest online retailer<\/a>, more than 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) from the two countries\u2019 border, local officials and the company said Friday.<\/p>\n

Ukraine has regularly hit targets in the distant Urals this year and has even struck a Russian oil refinery in western Siberia, nearly 2,500 kilometers (1,550 miles) from the border. The attacks are examples of how Kyiv has used drone innovation<\/a> as a key part of its response to the invasion<\/a> by its much bigger enemy more than four years ago.<\/p>\n

Its successes have drawn international interest and drone cooperation agreements with nine countries, with further deals being negotiated with 15 other countries, according to Kyiv officials.<\/p>\n

A Wildberries warehouse in Yekaterinburg, Russia\u2019s fourth-largest city, was set ablaze by the attack, the company said. Most merchandise wasn\u2019t damaged, it said, unlike at some of the more than a dozen other Wildberries depots struck by Ukraine in recent weeks that have burned down. Kyiv is trying to rattle the Russian public and the Kremlin with the attacks.<\/p>\n

The regional governor, Denis Pasler, said three drones hit the warehouse\u2019s roof. Artyom Zhoga, the Kremlin\u2019s representative in the region, said that 800 people were evacuated from the warehouse and nobody was hurt.<\/p>\n

Ukraine presses on with plans for new weapons<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is pushing for his country to keep up the pace of technological development, especially in air defense systems to help stop Russian ballistic missiles<\/a> that are exploiting Ukraine\u2019s shortage of American-made Patriot interceptor missiles<\/a> and battering civilian areas.<\/p>\n

A joint European anti-ballistic development program<\/a> is already underway, Zelenskyy said late Thursday, with 10 countries engaged in developing an anti-ballistic shield. Europe is concerned about Moscow\u2019s ambitions on the continent beyond Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cUkraine is capable of producing its (anti-ballistic) missile and launcher, while our partners will provide the necessary components and critical elements \u2014 radars, sensors, and everything else required,\u201d Zelenskyy said on social media. \u201cAn anti-ballistic program of our own \u2014 one that is truly large-scale \u2014 will greatly benefit everyone in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the same time, Ukraine is working on manufacturing its own ballistic missiles to use against Russia. \u201cThe tests have shown strong potential. We need to turn this into a real weapon,\u201d Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n

Defenders are under pressure in eastern Ukraine<\/p>\n

Ukrainian front-line defenses in eastern regions, meanwhile, remain under strain as Russia\u2019s bigger army looks for a breakthrough after months of minimal advances that Western analysts and official says have had a high cost for Moscow in troop casualties.<\/p>\n

Ukraine has been evacuating children from Kramatorsk, one of the four eastern Donetsk region cities that make up Ukraine\u2019s so-called Fortress Belt. The line of four large and heavily defended cities, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) long, has been key to denying Moscow its goal of seizing Ukraine\u2019s industrial heartland.<\/p>\n

The head of the Donetsk region\u2019s regional military administration, Vadym Filashkin, said Friday that more than 800 people, including 91 children, were evacuated over the previous 24 hours.<\/p>\n

Ukraine has been deploying midrange strike drones<\/a> to disrupt Russia\u2019s supply lines and slow it advance.<\/p>\n

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Russia and Ukraine sustain nightly drone attacks<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s air defenses downed 203 Ukrainian drones from late Thursday through early Friday, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Russia attacked Ukraine with 147 long-range strike drones, according to the country\u2019s air force.<\/p>\n

In Ukraine\u2019s northern Sumy region, a Russian drone struck a busy market Friday morning, wounding 10 people, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Russia also launched glide bombs and drones of various types at the regional capital, according to the head of regional administration, Oleh Hryhorov. <\/p>\n

The attack targeted residential buildings, transport and infrastructure, wounding two people, he said.<\/p>\n

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Follow the AP\u2019s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian long-range drones hit a warehouse in the Ural Mountains belonging to Russia\u2019s biggest online retailer, more than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8958,634,8957,153,154,160,364,7695,157,6,26,164,152,81],"class_list":["post-25330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-artyom-zhoga","tag-business","tag-denis-pasler","tag-drone-surveillance-and-warfare","tag-general-news","tag-military-and-defense","tag-military-technology","tag-retail-and-wholesale","tag-russia-government","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-government","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}