The targets hit included a brewing company, a warehouse for construction material, and a mail sorting office that had nothing to do with the war, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. But the Russian Defense Ministry said the businesses masked ties to the military.

Russia and Ukraine are producing ever larger numbers of innovative aerial weapons, hoping for a breakthrough as ground combat is largely frozen.

The strikes have drawn attention not only because of their reach inside Russia, but also because of Wildberries’ economic importance, its ties to the country’s financial sector, and the impact on ordinary Russian consumers.

Russian forces have ramped up the number of missile strikes on Ukrainian cities, likely seeking to exploit Kyiv's shortage of ballistic missile interceptors.

July, Ukraine has carried out a series of attacks on Wildberries sites, saying they are used to help supply Russia's military.

U.S.-made systems are Kyiv's only means to shoot down ballistic missiles, and Ukraine says it has run out of interceptors. Seventeen Ukrainians died overnight.

Meanwhile, a senior Ukrainian official familiar with the matter told the Kyiv Independent that a shortage of interceptors was not the decisive factor behind Ukrainian forces’ failure to intercept

When Maria learnt that her 59-year-old father had died after being shot in Ukraine, she was doubly shocked. She didn’t know he’d enlisted – nor that he had married.