A Ukrainian drone attack sparked a fire at one of Russian online retailer Wildberries’ warehouses in Russia’ Vladimir region on Monday, prompting the evacuation of staff, the company said.
Wildberries said firefighters were responding to the blaze and that logistics operations had been rerouted to other facilities to ensure deliveries and shipments continued as usual.
Vladimir region Governor Alexander Avdeyev said a young man sustained a non-life-threatening head injury and was taken to hospital, while a woman living nearby suffered minor leg injuries.
The attack came a day after Ukrainian drones struck another Wildberries warehouse in Russia’s Samara region.
The latest attacks come as cross-border drone strikes have intensified, with Ukrainian attacks killing at least nine people in Russia and Russian strikes killing at least five in Ukraine, according to officials in both countries.
Kyiv has attacked about a dozen Wildberries sites since 18 July in a bid to disrupt the operations of the company, a linchpin of the consumer economy that Kyiv says helps bolster Vladimir Putin’s war machine.
Russia’s defence ministry said it downed 635 Ukrainian drones during the night. Moscow does not typically reveal the total number of projectiles fired by Ukraine.
One killed and 31 injured in Russian attack on residential building in Zaporizhzia
A Russian daytime glide bomb struck a multi-storey apartment building in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Sunday, killing at least one woman and injuring 31 others, according to regional governor Ivan Fedorov.
Rescue teams were searching the partially collapsed building for survivors, while authorities also reported damage elsewhere in the city.
Located about 20km (12 miles) from the front line, Zaporizhzhia has come under frequent Russian bombardment throughout the war due to its proximity to the fighting.
Ukrainian drone attack sets Wildberries warehouse ablaze in Russia’s Vladimir region
A Ukrainian drone attack sparked a fire at one of Russian online retailer Wildberries’ warehouses in the Vladimir region on Monday, prompting the evacuation of staff, the company said.
Wildberries said firefighters were responding to the blaze and that logistics operations had been rerouted to other facilities to ensure deliveries and shipments continued as usual.
The company’s warehouses have been repeatedly targeted by Ukrainian drone strikes in recent weeks.
Vladimir region governor Alexander Avdeyev said a young man sustained a non-life-threatening head injury and was taken to hospital.
A woman living nearby also suffered minor leg injuries, he said.
Two UK volunteers plan to donate truck to Ukraine for evacuating wounded soldiers
Two men from Wolverhampton, Steve Morris (64) and Brian Gunter (58), are raising £7,000 to buy a truck that will be donated to Ukraine’s military for evacuating wounded soldiers from the front lines to hospitals.
They plan to drive the truck to Lviv in late September as part of a convoy organised by the charity Driving Ukraine, the BBC reported.
After handing over the vehicle and aid supplies, they expect to return by train.
The pair previously delivered about £10,000 worth of food and medical supplies to Ukraine in 2022.
Their motivation is personal: Gunter made Ukrainian friends through buhurt (medieval combat competitions), and several of those friends were killed fighting in the war.
“A lot of people who were part of the Ukraine [buhurt] team, Brian’s friends, are or were of fighting age.“Some of them didn’t come back.”
He said that Gunter was “pretty close to friends who died on the battlefield”.
“One is too many, and more than one is more than too many,” Morris said.
According to Morris, Ukrainian forces use remote-controlled tracked vehicles - similar to small tanks - to retrieve wounded soldiers from the battlefield and move them to a safe location where medics can administer first aid.
The evacuation truck that Morris and Gunter hope to deliver would then transport the injured soldiers to hospital.
‘I can live without fear for the first time’: Inside the camp in Italy helping Ukraine’s traumatised children
The war has upended normal life for hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian children, with many seeing their homes destroyed. The No Sirens camp, run by Hope for Ukraine, tells Alex Croft that they aim to help restore the joy of childhood that has been lost:
Over 236,000 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine identified by Russian media investigation
Russian independent outlet Mediazona and the BBC Russian Service say they have identified the names of 236,066 Russian troops killed since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Their database, compiled from obituaries, relatives’ posts, regional media reports and official announcements, suggests the real death toll is likely to be considerably higher because many military deaths are never made public.
The confirmed fatalities include more than 86,600 volunteers, 26,200 former prisoners, 19,600 mobilised troops and 7,465 officers.
The figures have not been independently verified.
Ukraine’s military estimates Russia has suffered about 1.45 million total military casualties – including those killed, wounded, missing and captured – while a recent study by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) estimated Russia had sustained around 1.4 million battlefield casualties, including up to 450,000 deaths, by June 2026.
Man arrested after shooting injures four Ukrainian military recruitment officers in Odesa
A 32-year-old man was arrested after allegedly opening fire on military recruitment officers in the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa on Sunday, injuring four people, police said.
The suspect was detained at the scene and his pistol was seized, while authorities launched an investigation into the shooting.
The incident occurred during a mobilisation operation and is the latest in a series of attacks targeting Ukraine’s Territorial Recruitment Centres (TCCs).
Police say attacks on enlistment officers have risen sharply since Russia’s full-scale invasion, with 118 incidents recorded in the first four months of 2026 alone, according to The Kyiv Independent.
EU naval mission boards a sanctioned Russian ‘shadow fleet’ tanker in the Mediterranean
An EU naval mission led by Italy boarded a sanctioned Russian “shadow fleet” tanker in the Mediterranean on Sunday, the second such operation in less than two weeks as Europe increases efforts to stop Moscow from evading oil sanctions.
Italy’s defence ministry said the tanker, Toa Payoh, was intercepted west of the Sicilian island of Pantelleria while sailing from Benin to Istanbul.
The ship, which switched to a Cameroonian registry last week, was boarded after its captain initially refused to provide documents.
Italian forces, backed by a Greek naval vessel and a Polish patrol aircraft, inspected the tanker to verify its identity, according to The Kyiv Independent.
“I wish to commend the crew of the Thaon di Revel and all military personnel involved in the operation for the professionalism, preparedness, and resolve they demonstrated,” Italian defense minister Guido Crosetto said.
“This activity serves as further concrete evidence of Italy's contribution to security in the Mediterranean and to the European Union’s efforts.”
One killed and 31 injured in Russian attack on residential building in Zaporizhzia
A Russian daytime glide bomb struck a multi-storey apartment building in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Sunday, killing at least one woman and injuring 31 others, according to regional governor Ivan Fedorov.
Rescue teams were searching the partially collapsed building for survivors, while authorities also reported damage elsewhere in the city.
Located about 20km (12 miles) from the front line, Zaporizhzhia has come under frequent Russian bombardment throughout the war due to its proximity to the fighting.
Ukraine targets Wildberries again
Ukrainian drones struck another facility belonging to Russian retail giant Wildberries on Sunday, hitting a warehouse in the Samara region as Kyiv continued a campaign targeting the country’s largest online retailer.
The strike caused a fire, but no casualties, regional governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said.
The warehouse lies about 800km (500 miles) from Ukraine’s most advanced military positions.
The latest attack came as cross-border drone strikes intensified, with Ukrainian attacks killing at least nine people in Russia and Russian strikes killing at least five in Ukraine, according to officials in both countries.
Ukrainian forces have targeted around a dozen Wildberries facilities since 18 July in what appears to be an effort to disrupt the operations of the company, a cornerstone of Russia’s consumer economy that is often described as the country’s equivalent of Amazon.
Crew of Iranian ship hit in Ukrainian attack returns home
The crew of an Iranian commercial ship that was hit in a Ukrainian attack and the body of a sailor killed in the incident have returned to Iran, according to Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency in a report on Sunday.
Iran said an attack in the Caspian Sea in late July resulted in an explosion that killed one sailor and injured another.
Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araqchi had vowed that the Ukrainian attack on an Iranian commercial vessel "cannot go unanswered".