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long-range strikes

Ukrainian long-range drones struck warehouse facilities in Russia's Moscow and Ryazan regions overnight, killing at least five people, according to regional officials and independent reporting on the strikes. Among the facilities hit were logistics hubs associated with major Russian e-commerce platforms, a target set that marks a deliberate widening of Ukraine's drone campaign beyond the military-industrial and energy infrastructure that dominated the war's earlier long-range strike phases.

  • Ukraine's long-range drone campaign has progressively expanded its target list from oil refineries and airbases toward transport and distribution infrastructure over the past year.
  • E-commerce logistics hubs in Russia have grown substantially in scale as the domestic retail sector adapted to sanctions-driven shifts away from Western platforms.
  • Strikes on distribution infrastructure impose costs that are diffuse and hard to quantify precisely, unlike strikes on a specific military asset with a known replacement cost.
  • Russian air defence has had mixed success intercepting drones targeting facilities deep inside Russian territory, including around Moscow.

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