Jens Asbjørn Bøgen
For a second night running, Russia’s Defense Ministry counted intercepted Ukrainian drones by the hundreds.
Ukraine’s long-range drone campaign is reaching further into Russian civilian logistics, and the overnight attack into Wednesday pulled a new target into the fire: the online retailer that handles much of the country’s parcel traffic.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said its air defenses destroyed 709 Ukrainian drones overnight across 14 Russian regions, Crimea, and the waters of the Black and Azov seas, according to independent Russian outlet Meduza.
The ministry listed Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, Kaluga, Tula, Ryazan, Oryol, Voronezh, Saratov, Samara, Rostov, Krasnodar Krai, the Moscow region, and the Republic of Adygea among the areas where drones were shot down.
The figure is Russia’s own count, not an independently verified total. It follows a tally of 856 drones the ministry reported for the previous night.
Fire at the Adygea logistics hub
The most visible damage came in Adygeysk, a town in the Republic of Adygea in southern Russia. A drone hit an Ozon marketplace warehouse there, igniting a fire that forced an evacuation.
Ozon is one of Russia’s largest online retailers, second only to Wildberries in terms of gross merchandise volume and revenue.
In a statement carried by the Kyiv Independent, the company said: “Our logistics center in the Adygea Republic was attacked by a drone. We immediately evacuated all employees, and so far, no one has been injured. A fire broke out, and emergency services are currently on the scene.”
Part of the roof at the facility collapsed, the Kyiv Post reported, citing Russian outlet Astra. Ozon said it was pulling products stored at the warehouse from its storefront, rerouting shipments to other hubs, and warned that some orders would be canceled.
A campaign aimed at parcel logistics
Ukrainian drones have been hitting Ozon warehouses since August, and the company put its losses from the strikes at 30.1 billion rubles in its third-quarter 2026 financial report, Meduza noted.
Kyiv has accused the distribution networks of Ozon and its competitor Wildberries of helping move military equipment and dual-use components, including electronics used in drone production, the Kyiv Post reported.
