Wildberries logistics hub in Russia's Tula region on fire after drone attack


Aug 5 (Reuters) - ⁠A logistics hub oftop Russian online ⁠retailer Wildberries caught fire after ‌a Ukrainian drone attack that injured one person, Tula regional governor Dmitry Milyayev said ​on Telegram on Wednesday.

Wildberries, ⁠which has seen ⁠over a dozen of its facilities damaged ⁠in ‌drone attacks recently, confirmed the strike in a separate ⁠Telegram post and said it had ​evacuated ‌people from the facility while redirecting ⁠delivery flows.

Milyayev ​said two industrial facilities in the city of Novomoskovsk and in ⁠the Uzlovaya area, as well ​as two apartment buildings in another part of the Tula region, were ⁠also damaged.

Russian forces attacked the Ukrainian capital Kyiv from the air early on Wednesday, killing one person, injuring ​24 and severely ⁠damaging buildings in several districts of ​the city of 3 ‌million people.

(Reporting by Jekaterīna ​Golubkova in Tokyo; Editing by Tom Hogue and Stephen Coates)

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