Conflict · Moscow drones · Archive5 Dead as Drones Strike Near Moscow; Officials Won't Say Who Owns the WarehouseAired August 5, 2026 at 4:19 AM UTCWritten September 7, 2026 at 9:22 PM UTCRead the write-upThis storyTranscript · LOADING0:00Overnight Ukrainian drone strikes killed0:02at least five people and wounded 10 more0:04at an industrial park 69 km south of the0:07Kremlin. Local officials confirmed the0:09casualties but refused to identify the0:11operator of the warehouse that caught0:12fire. Two other Wildberries warehouses0:15were hit around the same time. One near0:16St. Petersburg and another in the Tver0:18region, both confirmed by authorities.0:20The drone campaign is expanding0:22geographically with the deadliest attack0:24occurring nearest to the capital.0:26>> Wildberries is Russia's largest online0:28retailer, sometimes called the Russian0:30Amazon, used by tens of millions of0:32buyers and hundreds of thousands of0:34sellers. The official silence on the0:36Moscow site leaves a critical gap in0:38confirming whether the deadliest strike0:39hit a military depot or a civilian0:41facility. Kyiv insists these depots0:44supply the Russian military. Moscow0:46denies it. The contradiction defines0:48whether Monday's strikes hit a logistics0:50chain or an e-commerce platform. That0:52distinction is not abstract. It0:54determines the legality and the human0:56cost. Since last month, Ukrainian drones0:59have repeatedly hit Wildberries1:00facilities in what the BBC's Russia1:02editor describes as an apparent attempt1:04to disrupt the company. Monday's attack1:07escalated the campaign, reaching closer1:09to the capital and causing the most1:10deaths. With millions of Russians1:12relying on Wildberries for daily1:14shopping, the strikes are felt broadly.1:16One seller told the BBC his business had1:18already been hit and the official1:20silence on the Moscow site leaves the1:22allegations untested. The drone that1:24killed five people did not distinguish1:26between military depot and civilian1:28warehouse. For now, Russian authorities1:30are not clarifying. The investigation1:33leaves both accusations and the identity1:35of the Moscow site unresolved.Explore with HeyDexThe shortThe short ↗