Large fires broke out in the Russian regions of Volgograd and Krasnodar overnight into Friday following drone attacks, independent monitoring channels reported. Five people were injured.
During the night from Thursday to Friday, July 31, 2026, drones carried out attacks on several targets in Russian regions, setting ablaze warehouse facilities of Russia's largest online retailer Wildberries and two oil refineries. The information emerged via independent monitoring channels, and official Kyiv has not yet commented on the alleged attacks.
As reported by the Exilenova channel, the target was the Wildberries distribution center in Volgograd, a logistics complex covering 44,000 square meters serving the wider region. At the same time, the Lukoil-Volgogradneftepererabotka refinery in the same city, one of Russia's largest oil processing plants, producing gasoline, diesel fuel, aviation fuel and other derivatives, was also hit.
Separately, Exilenova reported a fire at an oil refinery in the city of Tuapse in Krasnodar Krai, with the cause not yet officially known. Independent channel ASTRA added that another Wildberries facility in Zelenodolsk, in Russia's republic of Tatarstan, was also attacked during the night. Independent verification of these claims has not been conducted so far, notes Kyiv Independent, whose report is carried by Net.hr.
Volgograd Oblast Governor Andrey Bocharov confirmed that five people were injured in the massive overnight attack on the region. Fires broke out at an industrial facility and warehouses, he said, but did not specify which locations or comment on the alleged attacks on the Wildberries warehouse or the refinery.
Wildberries, often called "Russia's Amazon," holds nearly half of Russia's online retail market. The company offers a range of dual-use products on its platform, including body armor and fiber optic cables that can be used for FPV drones. The attack on the distribution center in Volgograd is just the latest in a series of strikes on the company's facilities; several of its locations were reportedly hit over the past week. According to reports, after previous attacks the company removed products from search results for the Russian terms "everything for the SVO" and "SVO," an acronym for "special military operation," the official name the Kremlin uses for the war against Ukraine.
While Russian regions extinguish fires, AMK Mapping reports that six Russian Tu-95MS strategic bombers, which a day earlier took part in a massive missile strike on Ukraine, are returning from Olenya air base to the Ukrainka base in the Far East. There they will either carry out training missions or be re-armed with Kh-101 cruise missiles for the next attack on Ukraine.
Ukrainian authorities again did not comment on the attacks on Russian targets. The series of night strikes on logistics and energy facilities continues as both sides step up pressure on each other's infrastructure.
