Volgograd region subjected to massive drone attack: Wildberries warehouse set on fire, houses damaged
The region is home to a Lukoil-owned (LKOH.MM), opens new tab oil refinery. Five people are seeking medical help after the attacks, Bocharov added on Telegram.
Top online retailer Wildberries said in a Telegram statement that one of its logistic hubs in the city of Volgograd caught fire following the attack, but there were no injuries.
In the neighbouring southern region of Rostov, a woman was injured after a drone attack in the town of Gukovo, regional governor Yuri Slyusar said on the messaging app.
Ukraine has recently stepped up attacks on Wildberries facilities, as it keeps up strikes on energy facilities that have triggered a supply crisis across most of Russia.
Wildberries, with a few of its other warehouses hit as recently as Thursday, earlier said it had paid a second tranche of financial support to nearly 100,000 sellers whose goods were damaged.
Ukraine, with its own cities under constant Russian attack, says its strikes deep inside the neighbour are "long-range sanctions" designed to sap Moscow's war-fighting capacity and force it to end the 4-1/2-year conflict.
