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Russian travel agency liquidations jump 52% as tourism demand cools
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Ukrainian drones killed seven employees of online retailer Wildberries at its logistics centre in Kotovsk in Russia's Tambov region overnight, regional governor Yevgeny Pervyshov said on July 18.
The strike is among the deadliest on a civilian commercial site inside Russia since the full-scale war began, and shows Kyiv's deep-strike campaign reaching beyond refineries and airfields into the logistics backbone of Russia's consumer economy.
Wildberries is the country's largest online marketplace, and the attack on the capital region came exactly one month after Ukraine's largest-ever drone raid on Moscow hit the Moscow Oil Refinery.
Pervyshov said the seven dead were night-shift workers and a further 24 people were injured at the Kotovsk site, with casualties taken to hospitals in Kotovsk and Tambov. Open flames at the warehouse were put out, though firefighting continued.
Wildberries said its logistics centres in Kotovsk and in Elektrostal in the Moscow region were both attacked, that staff were evacuated, and that the Tambov fire had been contained while emergency crews were still working at the Elektrostal site.
Moscow region governor Andrei Vorobyov confirmed the attack on the region and said 26 people were injured, 24 of them where drones came down on the Wildberries warehouse in Elektrostal and two in nearby Noginsk, where an oil depot caught fire.
Some of the injured are in a serious condition, he said. A maternity hospital near the burning depot was evacuated as a precaution. The Telegram channels Astra and Exilenova+ published footage of the depot fire.
In Vladimir, a drone struck a flat in an apartment block and started a fire, with no casualties according to preliminary information, Vladimir region governor Alexander Avdeev said.
More than 370 drones were launched toward the Moscow region overnight, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said. "Most were neutralised by air defence forces at distant approaches," he wrote on the state-backed MAX platform, adding that 64 were destroyed on approach to the city.
Flight restrictions were imposed at Domodedovo and Zhukovsky airports. Ukraine's military has not commented on the attack.
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