A Ukrainian drone attack targeting an industrial zone in the city of Chekhov, located outside Moscow, led to the death of five people and the injury of ten others, according to what local authorities announced, Tuesday, in the area surrounding the Russian capital, which is hundreds of kilometers away from the front line. Ukraine carried out long-range strikes targeting civilian infrastructure inside Russia, after it also intensified its attacks on the warehouses of Wildberries, the Russian e-commerce giant, in recent weeks.

Published on: 04/08/2026 - 11:17

Five people were killed and ten others were injured, Tuesday, as a result of a drone attack that targeted an industrial area in the city of Chekhov, located outside the Russian capital, Moscow, according to what local authorities announced. This toll is considered high in the area surrounding the Russian capital, located hundreds of kilometers from the front line, where battles have been taking place between the Russian and Ukrainian armies for more than four years.

The governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, said in a post on the Telegram application: “Fires broke out in the Novosilky industrial zone following a strike (an attack launched by Ukraine with drones on the region...), and five people were killed and ten others were injured,” adding that firefighting teams were later able to control the fires. Vorobyov also indicated that the attack also resulted in damage to a house and a car.

Drone attacks caused damage to a warehouse near Krasny Bor in northwestern Russia, wounding one person, according to the governor of the Leningrad region, Alexander Drozdenko. Wildberries confirmed that a fire broke out in its warehouse in Krasny Bor following the attack.

Another warehouse belonging to the same company in the rural region of Emmaus, about 180 kilometers northwest of Moscow, was attacked by a Ukrainian drone, according to what the region’s governor, Vitaly Korolyov, announced.

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In recent weeks, Ukraine launched air strikes targeting Russian warehouses and facilities, as part of a long-range bombing campaign that Kiev says targets Russian military and logistical sites. These strikes specifically targeted warehouses belonging to the Russian company "Wildberries", which specializes in e-commerce.

In the Leningrad region in northwestern Russia, a drone attack caused a fire at a logistics site belonging to “Wildberries,” according to what the company’s media office announced on Tuesday morning via the Telegram application. For his part, the governor of the region, Alexander Drozdenko, said that Russian defenses shot down 17 drones in the region, noting that damage had been detected in the vicinity of a warehouse.

On the Ukrainian side, two girls and an elderly man were killed as a result of Russian night strikes targeting the Sumy region, according to what Governor Oleg Grigorov announced. He explained that the bodies of two girls, aged 5 and 10, were found and recovered from under the rubble of their house.

During the night, the Russian army also targeted the city of Kherson, wounding a 52-year-old man, according to the city’s military administration.

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According to the same source, six guided aerial bombs hit civilian infrastructure in the city, including residential and non-residential buildings.

In another attack on the coastal city of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine, an 89-year-old woman was killed, according to Georgi Reshetilov, head of the military administration in the region.

Based on an analysis conducted by Agence France-Presse in light of data from the Institute for the Study of War, the front lines in Ukraine remained largely unchanged during the month of July, after Ukrainian forces largely succeeded in limiting the momentum of the Russian advance.

France 24/AFP

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