Russia and Ukraine exchanged another round of long-range strikes overnight into Aug. 5, with a Russian ballistic missile and drone barrage killing at least 15 people across Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast, while Ukrainian drones struck a Wildberries warehouse deep inside Russia’s Tula Oblast.
Fourteen people were killed, and 27 injured across the Brovary, Bucha and Fastiv districts of Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reported, with warehouses and vehicles set ablaze. In Kyiv city itself, one person was killed and 24 injured, 15 of them hospitalized and four in critical condition, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. A warehouse collapsed in the Holosiivskyi district, where rescuers pulled two people from the rubble; fires also broke out at warehouse sites in the Obolonskyi and Desnianskyi districts, and an industrial ammonia leak was contained, according to Kyiv Post. Kyiv military administration head Timur Tkachenko said the “enemy is once again massively attacking the Kyiv region.”
Ukrainian military-linked Telegram channels separately claimed the strikes hit warehouses belonging to the retailers Rozetka and Novus and the postal operator Nova Poshta, as well as two logistics complexes and a ceramics factory belonging to the Epicentr chain.
On the Russian side, Ukrainian drones set fire to a Wildberries warehouse in the town of Aleksin, Tula Oblast, roughly 320 kilometers from the Ukrainian border — Kyiv’s 16th confirmed hit on the retailer’s facilities in under three weeks, according to Euromaidan Press. One worker was injured. Strikes were also reported in Kazan, Tatarstan, though the specific target remained unclear. Kyiv accuses Wildberries of supplying components for Russian military drones.
