Ukraine attacks Russia: Several killed following strikes on Wildberries sites

This is one of Ukraine's most devastating attacks on Russia to date. A pillar of smoke visible from many kilometers away and even from the air. The targets? Two warehouses belonging to one of Russia's largest online retailers, Wildberries, hundreds of kilometers apart. In the Tambov region, several night shift workers were killed and many others injured as air defenses shot down dozens of drones but not all of them. The regional senator accused the West of being complicit. The West knew 100% these warehouses are civilian infrastructure as such attacks on them are crimes against humanity and cannot be justified. Ukraine's president saying they're in response to Russia's targeting its civilian facilities and that the warehouses were storing components for Russian drones and other military equipment. Perhaps a tit-for-tat response to this, Russia made similar accusations when it targeted warehouses of Ukraine's Novoposhta delivery company several times in the past months. On the Black Sea, Russia and Ukraine exchanged strikes on civilian sites and vessels saying they are involved in the war effort. Kiev says it has sunk more than 170 vessels in the past two weeks including tankers, naval cranes and tugboats, calling them all part of Russia's shadow fleet, a term used to describe vessels transporting sanctioned Russian oil. The commander of Ukraine's drone forces says the campaign is diverting hundreds of Russian anti-drone force units away from the front line to the sea. Russia says it's downed an average of around 500 drones a day in the past two months. Ukraine expanding its scope of targets from military facilities and oil refineries to warehouses and commercial shipping, which it says is aimed at pushing Moscow to end the war. Dmitry Medvedenko, Al Jazeera.