Ukraine has launched an attack on a Russian rocket fuel plant in the bordering Rostov region, targeting workshops that produce explosives and gunpowder, the military has said.
The Kamensk-Shakhtinsky plant, which Kyiv says is part of Russia’s large military-industrial complex, was struck overnight going into Sunday.
Ukraine’s military claimed on Monday that two workshops had been destroyed and four others damaged, sharing satellite images of the aftermath.
The plant produces solid rocket fuel for several multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS), and for other missile systems and air-delivered munitions, it said.
The attack was part of a huge Ukrainian drone attack that Russian authorities said included more than 800 drones.
Ukraine said it destroyed another warehouse belonging to Russian online retailer Wildberries in the attack. Moscow said it had destroyed 822 drones overnight, with 600 directed towards the capital, in what it said was the “largest scale” attack seen so far this year.
The Wildberries site attacked in Podolsk, in the Moscow region, is reportedly the largest owned by the retailer.
Images show the vast warehouse completely destroyed, as Kyiv continues its campaign against the so-called ‘Russian Amazon’ which aims to “bring home the war” to ordinary Russians.
Watch: Wildberries logistics centres hit in Ukraine's biggest drone strike of the year
Drone hits another Wildberries warehouse near Moscow
A drone has hit a warehouse of Russian e-commerce company Wildberries near Moscow and caused a fire at the site, regional governor Andrei Vorobyov said.
He said the fire has now been extinguished but the drone attack damaged other buildings, including private houses, apartment buildings, shops and a power station.
At least three people were injured in the attack, he said.
In the past month, Ukraine has hit at least seven of the 10 largest Wildberries warehouses, which it says is complicit in Moscow’s war against Kyiv.
UK says it stands ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with Ukraine after Russia fumes over British drones
Britain has said it stands united with Ukraine against Russia’s aggression after Moscow fumed over British-made drones being used in strikes on Russia.
The Russian embassy in the UK on Monday accused London of complicity in aiding Ukraine with drones that are hitting targets deep inside Russian territory.
The UK, it said, is “deliberately opting for an escalation of the Ukraine crisis”.
"In doing so, the United Kingdom is acting as an accomplice and co-perpetrator of the bloody crimes and terrorist attacks," the Russian Embassy to the UK said.
It added: "London's actions will inevitably carry consequences for which it will have to answer," and the deeper its involvement in the conflict, "the higher the price it will pay".
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) told BBC News that Britain stands “shoulder to shoulder” with Ukraine.
"Russia should be in no doubt about the resolve of this Government to stand against Russian aggression, in Ukraine and against the UK and our allies," the spokesperson said.
The UK was "committed to providing the equipment Ukraine needs to defend itself against [Russian president Vladimir] Putin's illegal invasion," they said.
Russia tells North Korea they are making 'new and righteous world order'
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has hailed North Korea's role in fighting to eject Ukrainian forces from the Kursk region, writing in a letter that they succeeded in driving out a "Ukrainian Nazi clique".
North Korea and Russia are working to establish a "new and righteous world order," Lavrov wrote in a letter to North Korean foreign minister Choe Son Hui, according to the North's state news agency KCNA this morning.
Pyongyang has deployed troops to Russia since late 2024, when it helped Moscow retake a portion of Kursk that had been captured by a Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Vladimir Putin's regime routinely calls the Ukrainian administration “neo-Nazis,” even though the country has a Jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust and who heads a Western-backed, democratically elected government.
Putin has vowed to fight on in Ukraine until Moscow secures the country's "demilitarisation", "denazification" and neutrality, unless Kyiv accepts a deal that achieves those goals.
Russia fires top economist after he compares Putin’s economy to 1917 revolution
The chief economist of a Russian state development bank has been fired after reportedly drawing comparisons between Russia’s present day economy and the 1917 revolution.
Andrei Klepach, one of Russia's most prominent macroeconomists who worked for VEB, made the remarks to a financial forum in May. They were reported by Russian media only last week.
He warned that the country was falling behind the West and China and suffering mounting economic damage from the war in Ukraine, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Russia downs 180 drones in Moscow region overnight
Russian forces have downed at least 180 drones in the Moscow region overnight, the capital's mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in the early hours today.
Overall, 620 drones were heading for the region surrounding the Russian capital between Monday evening and 5am, he said.
Pictured: A resident collects things from a private house damaged during a Russian missile and drone strike in Odesa
Huge inferno engulfs ‘Russian Amazon’ Wildberries after Ukraine strike
