Ukraine war
Ukraine launches new wave of drone attacks on Russia
Updated August 26, 2026 – 1:49 p.mReading time: 1 min.
Two people have died in Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia. Another warehouse belonging to the Russian online mail order company Wildberries went up in flames.
A new wave of Ukrainian drone strikes on targets in… Russia two people died. The dead were a man and a 14-year-old girl, said the governor of the Lipetsk region, Igor Artamonov, according to the Interfax agency. A drone crashed into her house and set it on fire.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, 426 Ukrainian drones were intercepted and destroyed on Wednesday night. Also the capital Moscow was the target of the attacks. The airports in Tambov, Nizhny Novgorod and Yaroslavl reported temporarily suspended take-offs and landings due to air alerts.
Another warehouse of online retailer Wildberries attacked
The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on the news platform X, which Ukraine carried out airstrikes on 16 targets in Russia. Oil infrastructure objects, airfields, a missile unit and a logistics center were hit. The information provided by both sides could not initially be independently verified.
In the Tambov region, about 600 kilometers southeast of Moscow, another warehouse of the largest Russian online mail order company Wildberries was the target of a Ukrainian drone attack. The fire in the camp in Kotovsk spread to 100,000 square meters, said the region’s governor, Yevgeny Pervyshov.
The Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014, was also attacked. Three Ukrainian “Flamingo” cruise missiles are above Black Sea was intercepted, the Moscow-appointed governor of the port city of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvoshayev, said on social networks.
