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.
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. 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".
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