Ukraine Intensifies Drone Campaign Against Russian Infrastructure, Hitting Wildberries Warehouses and Military Facilities

Ukraine has escalated its asymmetric drone campaign deep inside Russia, repeatedly striking logistics hubs of the retail giant Wildberries in regions like Samara, Vladimir, and Tver to disrupt Russia's consumer economy. Concurrently, Russian forces launched devastating glide bomb attacks on Zaporizhzhia, while cross-border strikes caused civilian casualties in Belgorod and Saratov. Meanwhile, former Ukrainian military chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi cast doubt on Ukraine's NATO prospects, and Iran canceled retaliatory strikes against Ukraine following an apology from Kyiv.

Ukrainian drone strikes on warehouses

• ▪Ukrainian forces have targeted at least 18 Wildberries facilities over a two-week period, damaging warehouses with a combined area of around 1 million square meters.
• ▪Ukrainian drone strikes damaged a Wildberries warehouse in the Samara region, located approximately 800 kilometers from Ukraine's advanced military positions.
• ▪A Ukrainian drone attack struck a Wildberries logistics facility in Russia's Vladimir region, prompting staff evacuations and causing a fire.
• ▪A Wildberries warehouse in Russia's Tver region was damaged in a Ukrainian drone attack, with no worker injuries reported.

Russian glide bomb attacks

• ▪Russian strikes in Ukraine killed two people in the Dnipropetrovsk region and at least one person each in the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions.
• ▪Russian planes dropped eight glide bombs over a 90-minute span on residential districts of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, killing one person and wounding dozens.

Cross-border attack casualties

• ▪A Ukrainian drone strike on a residential building in Engels, Saratov region, killed two people.
• ▪Ukrainian drone strikes killed three people and injured two in the Udmurtia region of Russia.
• ▪Ukrainian strikes in the Russian border region of Belgorod killed three people and injured five, including a drone strike near a playground that killed one child.

Russian air defense operations

• ▪Russian forces brought down or destroyed 320 Ukrainian drones overnight over 19 different regions, according to the Russian defense ministry.
• ▪Russia claimed its air defenses shot down or intercepted 635 Ukrainian drones during overnight strikes on August 2, 2026.

Zaluzhnyi on NATO membership

• ▪Ukraine's former commander-in-chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi stated that Ukraine has no prospect of joining NATO because it does not meet the required military standards.
• ▪Valerii Zaluzhnyi criticized NATO's reliance on World War II doctrines, calling it impossible for Ukraine's current armed forces to join such an organization.

Iran-Ukraine Caspian Sea incident

• ▪The Iranian military canceled planned retaliatory strikes on three sites in Ukraine after receiving an official apology from Kyiv.
• ▪Iran had planned to retaliate for a late July attack on an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea that killed one sailor and injured another.

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