{"id":7880,"date":"2026-08-02T08:13:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T08:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=7880"},"modified":"2026-08-07T13:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:50:11","slug":"two-civilians-dead-as-600-ukrainian-drones-attack-russia-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/02\/two-civilians-dead-as-600-ukrainian-drones-attack-russia-authorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Two civilians dead as 600+ Ukrainian drones attack Russia \u2013 authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UAVs damaged a multi-story apartment block in Engels and sparked a fire at a Wildberries hub in Samara Region, officials have said<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two civilians have been killed and several wounded after a wave of Ukrainian drones attacked Russia\u2019s Saratov Region in the central part of the country, local Governor Roman Busargin has said.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on Telegram on Sunday, Busargin said the UAVs targeted facilities in both Saratov and Engels, with drone wreckage claiming two lives as it tore into a multi-story apartment block in the latter city. He added that several people were injured in Saratov, with strikes also damaging <em>\u201ccivilian infrastructure facilities.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The governor assured that the affected families would be given <em>\u201call necessary assistance\u201d<\/em> and temporary housing while engineers assess the damage.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"RT composite.\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6a64c0b985f5406cde3f039b.jpg\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/643465-ukraines-strikes-russia-wildberries\/\">Why Ukraine\u2019s strikes on Russia\u2019s Amazon reek of war crimes<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry reported that air defenses had intercepted and destroyed a total of 635 Ukrainian drones overnight across 16 regions \u2014 including Belgorod, Bryansk, Rostov, and Saratov, as well as Crimea and Moscow Region. Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said in the early morning that six Ukrainian drones had been intercepted on approaches to the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Radiy Khabirov, the head of Republic of Bashkortostan, also in central Russia, said 25 drones had been downed over the region, with debris sparking a fire in the industrial zone in Ufa.<\/p>\n<p>In Samara Region, the attack also damaged a warehouse belonging to Wildberries, the country\u2019s largest online retailer often dubbed Russia\u2019s Amazon, the company\u2019s press service confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Wildberries said it had rerouted its logistics chain, with incoming shipments and outgoing orders now handled at other facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has intensified drone strikes deep into Russia in recent weeks, with many of the strikes targeting Wildberries hubs, along with civilian infrastructure and residential buildings. Ukraine\u2019s Vladimir Zelensky confirmed the attacks on the warehouses \u2013 which killed numerous civilians \u2013 were deliberate, arguing that the warehouses stored <em>\u201csanctioned components for drone production and navigation equipment.\u201d<\/em> Moscow has dismissed the claim that Wildberries supplies the Russian military.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has retaliated by targeting Ukraine\u2019s defense-related facilities, including drone and missile production sites and fuel depots. Russia maintains it never targets civilians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UAVs damaged a multi-story apartment block in Engels and sparked a fire at a Wildberries hub in Samara Region, officials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7882,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880\/revisions\/7882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}