{"id":740180,"date":"2026-08-16T21:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T21:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/740180\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T21:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T21:44:11","slug":"at-least-six-killed-in-russia-as-ukraine-launches-largest-attack-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/740180\/","title":{"rendered":"At least six killed in Russia as Ukraine launches largest attack of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"cp_picture__img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP26228258094636.jpg\"\/>Play Brightcove video<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Another warehouse belonging to Russia&#8217;s largest online retailer has been struck by Ukraine as Kyiv intensifies its attacks deep inside its neighbour&#8217;s territory, ITV News&#8217; Amy Lewis reports<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Ukraine struck Russia with hundreds of drones on Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv\u2019s largest aerial attacks of the war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Meanwhile, a Russian missile attack on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih killed two people and wounded 14 others, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Three other deaths from Russian strikes on Sunday have also been confirmed elsewhere in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Russia\u2019s Ministry of Defence said it had destroyed 822 <a class=\"qNUzV q7LZa\" data-testid=\"next-link-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/topic\/ukraine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ukrainian <\/a>drones overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Around 600 drones were detected heading towards the Russian capital, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, with a third destroyed over the Moscow region itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">An 83-year-old man was killed after a Ukrainian drone struck a private home in the Moscow region, local Governor Andrey Vorobyov said.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters try to put out a fire at a city book market in Kyiv. Credit: AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">He also confirmed that a Ukrainian attack had sparked a fire at a warehouse belonging to Russian retail giant Wildberries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">The business has been targeted by Kyiv numerous times in recent months, burning billions of pounds worth of merchandise belonging to the Russian online retail giant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Those attacks have brought the war home to the Russian public nearly four and a half years into Moscow\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Images shared by Russian media outlets from the town of Podolsk showed columns of black smoke rising from the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Five people were also killed in Russia\u2019s southwestern Rostov region, where three towns came under attack, local Governor Yury Slyusar said.<\/p>\n<p>Two people were killed in Russia&#8217;s attack against Ukraine. Credit: AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">This comes as a Russian attack on Kyiv sparked fires throughout the Ukrainian capital and injured six people.\u201cWherever the Russians can reach with their ballistic missiles, they strike civilian infrastructure,\u201d Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">\u201cSince this morning, air raid alerts have continued in many regions \u2013 the Russians launched another wave of drones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Elsewhere, Romania\u2019s Ministry of National Defence said Sunday that a Spanish Air and Space Force F-18 fighter jet shot down a drone that had entered Romanian airspace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">The drone\u2019s entry into the Nato member\u2019s airspace was detected by surveillance systems at 4.44am, the ministry said, about 14.9 miles north of the eastern city of Galati near the border with Moldova.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">A Spanish F-18 aircraft that was performing air policing duties \u201cmade radar contact with the target and received engagement approval,\u201d the ministry said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">\u201cThe drone was safely shot down by the F-18 aircraft at 05.01.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">The ministry later said that drone debris was also reported in the Black Sea around 10am on Sunday<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Subscribe for free to <a class=\"qNUzV q7LZa\" href=\"https:\/\/itvnews.substack.com\/\" data-testid=\"fecp-link-anchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">our weekly newsletter<\/a> for exclusive and original coverage from ITV News. 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