A massive drone attack
They have attacked about a dozen Wildberries sites since July 18 in a bid to disrupt the operations of the company, a linchpin of the consumer economy often described as Russia’s answer to Amazon.
A strike on a residential building in the neighbouring Saratov region, meanwhile, killed two people in the city of Engels, Governor Roman Busargin said. Civil infrastructure was damaged both in Engels and in the city of Saratov, he said.
Both Saratov city, which hosts a major oil refinery, and Engels, home of a military airbase, have come under repeated Ukrainian attack in recent years.
The governor of Russia’s Bashkortostan region, Radiy Khabirov, said that air defence units had repelled a massive drone attack on industrial facilities. One of the drones was shot down over the industrial area of the regional capital of Ufa, and a fire was being put out, he said.
