“Unfortunately, 32 people were injured as a result of the Kyiv regime’s attack on a plant in Kirov. Six of them died instantly,” the region’s governor, Aleksandr Sokolov, wrote on Telegram. According to an Osint analysis by the independent Telegram channel Astra, it would be the Avitek plant, which produces anti-aircraft missiles and aircraft components for the Russian army.
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An attack claimed by the Ukrainian president. “Our forces today struck one of the main military factories in Kirov, Russia,” Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Telegram.
“Our long-range attacks also hit an oil facility located almost 1,350 kilometers away,” Zelensky continued, adding that other targets were also hit, but without identifying them. “It is important to emphasize that the operation against Russian logistics continues, which supplies the occupation army with drone components, navigation equipment, and other material,” he added.
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Today, Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck one of the key military enterprises in Russia’s Kirov. It supplies components for the occupier’s aircraft and missile systems, which are used, in particular, in the massive attacks against our cities and communities. I thank our warriors for… pic.twitter.com/bKYnCjRl3B
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) July 24, 2026
A Ukrainian drone attack also hit a warehouse of the Russian online retail giant Wildberries this morning, targeted for the third time in a few days, near St. Petersburg, according to an AFP journalist and local authorities.
The attack caused a large fire; a column of grey smoke rose above the buildings of Russia’s second-largest city, located over 800 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. “St. Petersburg was attacked by military-type unmanned aerial vehicles,” the city’s governor, Alexander Beglov, said in a message posted on social media. According to images circulated on social media and by local media, the warehouses of the Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries were hit.
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