MOSCOW, July 18. /TASS/. Air defenses shot down 379 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions last night, the Defense Ministry reported.
Seven people were killed and 25 others suffered injuries in a strike on a Wildberries logistics center in the central Tambov Region. One person was killed and 37 people were injured in the Moscow Region.
TASS has gathered the key information on the consequences of the attacks.
Scale of attacks
- On-duty air defenses intercepted and destroyed 379 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions, the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea last night, the Defense Ministry said.
- According to the ministry, the drones were shot down over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, Smolensk, Ryazan, Kaluga, Tula, Tambov, Oryol, Lipetsk, Tver, Pskov, Voronezh, Rostov, Volgograd, Leningrad, Vladimir, Moscow, and Krasnodar regions, as well as Crimea, the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.
- At least 370 drones were detected flying toward the Moscow region between the evening of July 17 and the morning of July 18, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said.
- About 30 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were destroyed in the city of Taganrog and five districts of the southern Rostov Region, Governor Yury Slyusar said.
- Air defenses downed ten UAVs over the Voronezh Region, Governor Alexander Gusev reported.
- Six drones were destroyed over the Tula Region, Governor Dmitry Milyayev said.
- Six drones were shot down over the Leningrad Region, according to Governor Alexander Drozdenko.
Consequences of attacks on Moscow Region
- Falling drone debris sparked a fire at an oil depot in Noginsk outside Moscow, Moscow Region Governor Andrey Vorobyov said.
- A nearby maternity hospital was evacuated, with 22 mothers and seven babies moved to a safe location under medical observation, Bogorodsky District Head Denis Semyonov said.
- Drone fragments hit a warehouse operated by the Wildberries e-commerce company in the city of Elektrostal outside Moscow.
- Drone debris fell on a kindergarten building in the city of Elektrostal, causing a fire that was promptly extinguished; there were no casualties.
- According to the latest reports, the number of people injured in the Moscow Region has risen to 37, while one person has died.
Attacks on Tambov Region
- Seven people were killed and 25 were injured in a Ukrainian drone strike on a Wildberries logistics center in the Tambov Region, Governor Yevgeny Pervyshov said.
- The drones involved in the attack were equipped with striking elements designed to cause a high number of casualties.
- Four residential buildings were damaged in a Ukrainian attack on the village of Kuzmino-Gat, Alexander Orionov, head of the Tambov Municipal District, said.
- Teams from the Federal Center for Disaster Medicine and Moscow’s Center for Emergency Medical Aid have been dispatched to Tambov on the orders of Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko.
Other regions
- A private house was destroyed by falling drone debris in the Voronezh Region, Governor Alexander Gusev said.
- According to preliminary reports, there were no casualties.
- No casualties or damage were reported following a Ukrainian drone attack on the Tula Region, Governor Dmitry Milyayev said.
- The Ukrainian military carried out a strike on an energy facility in the border Kursk Region, leaving more than 46,000 people without electricity, Governor Alexander Khinshtein said.
Investigation
- Russia’s Investigative Committee has launched criminal investigations into acts of terrorism following the Ukrainian attacks on logistics centers in Kotovsk, Tambov Region, and Elektrostal, Moscow Region, Spokesperson Svetalana Petrenko said.
Reaction
- The Ukrainian army carried out a deliberate attack on a Wildberries warehouse in Kotovsk, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik said.
- According to the Tambov Region governor, this was the largest and deadliest attack the region has ever seen.
- Alexey Kondratyev, a Federation Council (upper house of parliament) member representing the Tambov Region, told TASS that the collective West was responsible for the attack and that its representatives would sooner or later face a tribunal similar to Nuremberg.
- Russian Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova has sent appeals to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk and the UN Secretary General's Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict Vanessa Frazier over a new series of Ukrainian attacks on Russian regions.
- According to Lantratova, the Ukrainian attacks are nothing but acts of terrorism and war crimes against civilians.
- The Kiev regime does not distinguish between military facilities and civilian areas, viewing logistics centers, oil depots and maternity hospitals as suitable targets, Leonid Slutsky, chairman of the State Duma (lower house of parliament) Committee on International Affairs, said.