Overnight into August 16, 2026, Ukraine launched one of its largest drone attacks of the war, hitting a Wildberries warehouse near Moscow and a rocket-fuel plant in Russia's Rostov region. At least six people were killed in Russia as a result.
Overnight into August 16, 2026, Ukraine carried out one of the largest drone attacks of the full-scale war against Russian territory, striking a series of targets across several regions. The two most notable hits were on a massive Wildberries warehouse outside Moscow and a rocket-fuel plant in Russia's Rostov region. Volunteers Support Ukraine is following the fallout from the strikes, which once again illustrate how directly ordinary people on both sides of the front line are affected by the war.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said around 600 drones were tracked heading toward the Moscow region overnight, with roughly 187 to 201 of them intercepted before reaching their targets. Russia's Defense Ministry, for its part, claimed a nationwide total of 822 drones destroyed across some 17 regions. The attack briefly disrupted air travel, forcing Moscow's Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Zhukovsky airports to suspend operations. For Volunteers Support Ukraine, numbers of this scale are a reminder of how large the war has grown and of how much support civilians on both sides continue to need.
Among the hardest-hit sites was Russia's largest Wildberries warehouse, a roughly 200,000-square-meter logistics complex in Koledino, near Podolsk in Moscow Oblast, where a massive fire broke out. This is not the first time Ukraine has targeted Wildberries facilities: Ukrainian officials say the retailer supplies dual-use goods, including FPV drones and fiber-optic cable, to the Russian military. Wildberries and the Kremlin reject that claim. Volunteers Support Ukraine does not take a side in that dispute, but continues to focus on the people caught in the middle of it.
Ukraine's General Staff confirmed a strike on the Kombinat Kamensky plant in Russia's Rostov region, a state-owned facility that produces solid rocket fuel for the Uragan, Smerch and Tornado-S rocket systems used by Russian forces. A second fire, separate from the Koledino warehouse, broke out at the Severnoye Domodedovo logistics complex. Authorities in Moscow Oblast reported one person killed, an 83-year-old man whose home was hit by a drone, along with several people wounded. In Rostov Oblast, the regional governor reported five people killed and one hospitalized, with damage recorded in the Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Gukovo and Donetsk districts. In total, at least six people were killed in Russia as a result of the attack. Volunteers Support Ukraine extends its concern to all civilians harmed by this war, wherever they live.
Whatever a given day's headlines bring, Volunteers Support Ukraine keeps its focus on the people living through the war's daily consequences. The organization channels the aid it has available toward those affected, adapting its support to needs on the ground as they change. NGO Volunteers Support Ukraine remains committed to that work for as long as it is needed.
