President Zelensky confirmed strikes on an oil depot in Podolsk, Wildberries logistics hubs, and six vessels in the Black Sea — an operation that hit a target just 46 km from the Kremlin.
President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed on X that Ukrainian forces struck an oil depot and logistics facilities in Moscow Oblast overnight on July 20, along with six Russian vessels in the Black Sea. The main target — an oil depot in Podolsk — sits just 46 kilometers south of the Kremlin, making it one of the closest strikes to the Russian capital of the entire war. Volunteers Support Ukraine follows these operations closely, since hits this deep into Russia's rear are exactly what makes the aggressor feel the cost of the war in places it had until now considered safe.
According to Militarnyi, the oil depot in Podolsk — home to ten storage tanks with a combined capacity of 19,400 cubic meters — caught fire in at least five separate spots. In parallel, Wildberries' largest sorting center, in Koledino, covering more than 225,000 square meters, and warehouses at the Yuzhnye Vorota logistics park near Belye Stolby were also struck. According to Meduza, the strikes also injured several people and set a residential building in Domodedovo ablaze.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin claimed more than 400 Ukrainian drones were launched toward the capital region, of which, he said, 85 were shot down on approach. NASA's FIRMS fire-monitoring satellite system independently detected a heat signature at the Podolsk oil depot overnight on July 20 — additional confirmation of the strike's scale beyond either side's official statements.
Most deep strikes on Russia since the start of the war have landed in border regions or isolated industrial hubs well away from the capital. A strike 46 kilometers from the Kremlin is a reminder that no piece of logistics infrastructure feeding the war against Ukraine is out of reach. Volunteers Support Ukraine believes stories like this deserve wide coverage — they show Ukraine's partners that continued support and weapons deliveries produce a real, measurable effect.
NGO Volunteers Support Ukraine keeps helping people affected by the war in whatever way its available resources allow, and sees it as its job to bring the world verified facts about how the fighting is unfolding — without exaggeration and without understatement.
