More than 16 drones struck an oil depot in the northern industrial zone of Armavir, Krasnodar Krai, overnight on July 22, sparking a fire covering 800 square meters and killing one employee, local authorities said. Nine pieces of specialized equipment and over 40 emergency personnel from the Ministry of Emergency Situations (MChS) were deployed to contain the blaze, according to Armavir Mayor Andrei Kharchenko.
In Krasnodar and the Dinskoy District, Ukrainian drones damaged private and multi-apartment residential buildings, but no casualties were reported there.
A local-level state of emergency was declared in Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Krai, after a fire broke out at a Wildberries logistics complex. A total of 10 people were injured in strikes on the company's warehouses in Krasnodar and Nevinnomyssk. Stavropol Governor Vladimir Vladimirov said one of the five injured in his region was hospitalized and was not in life-threatening condition. An MChS helicopter was used to extinguish the warehouse fire.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has previously described attacks on Wildberries warehouses as retaliation for Russian strikes on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, claiming the company's logistics centers were used to supply sanctioned components for drone and navigation equipment production. Russia's Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case on terrorism charges.
On the night of July 18, Ukrainian drones struck two large Wildberries warehouses in Kotovsk, Tambov Oblast, and Elektrostal, Moscow Oblast, killing eight people and injuring dozens more.
Sources differ on casualty figures: Armavir's administration reported one death at the oil depot, a figure also cited by Governor Veniamin Kondratiev in a Deutsche Welle report. TV Rain's report mentioned only the fire without casualty data. Ten people were injured in the Wildberries warehouse fire, according to Deutsche Welle and Ekho, but the number of hospitalized victims varies: Stavropol's governor said one was hospitalized, with no details on the others.