Ukrainian and Russian forces exchanged strikes that resulted in civilian casualties in both countries. Ukrainian drone operations targeted infrastructure in multiple Russian regions, with particular focus on Wildberries facilities. A warehouse operated by the retail company in the Samara region was hit, though regional authorities reported no deaths from that specific attack. A separate Wildberries logistics facility in the Vladimir region also caught fire following an attack, with staff evacuated and no immediate casualty reports.
Death tolls from other Ukrainian strikes included three killed and two wounded in the Udmurtia region, and three killed with five injured in the Belgorod border area. One child was killed and two injured when a strike hit an area adjacent to a playground in Belgorod. Additionally, two people died in a residential building strike in Engels, with civil infrastructure damaged in both Engels and the city of Saratov.
Ukraine’s military indicated its forces had attacked the Saratov oil refinery and Engels military airbase, reporting fires at both locations, as well as striking an oil depot in the Kaluga region. Russian defensive operations resulted in at least five deaths in Ukrainian territory, distributed across the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region and southern Zaporizhzhia and Kherson areas. A postal terminal in the northern Kharkiv region was destroyed, killing one worker.
Russia’s defense ministry reported strikes on infrastructure and military cargo vessels at the Ukrainian port of Mykolaiv, along with a vessel carrying military supplies in the Black Sea. Meanwhile, an EU naval mission led by Italy intercepted a tanker from Russia’s shadow fleet west of Sicily, marking the second such operation in less than two weeks as Europe increased efforts to enforce oil sanctions against Moscow.
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