One dead, 15 injured in Ukrainian attacks
One person was killed and 15 others were injured overnight in Ukrainian drone attacks in southern Russia, which notably targeted warehouses of e-commerce giant Wildberries, authorities said on Wednesday.
The company, very popular in Russia, was targeted for the second time in a few days. The previous attack last Saturday on two major Wildberries warehouses near Moscow killed eight night shift workers and caused fires that virtually destroyed the facilities.
According to the governor of the Krasnodar region, Veniamine Kondratiev, ten people were injured in the attack on a warehouse complex there that caught fire. One person was also killed when debris fell from a drone that struck a business in Armavir, he lamented. In Nevinnomyssk, in the Stavropol region (south), where “a warehouse complex caught fire following a drone attack”, five people were injured, said regional governor Vladimir Vladimirov.
Zelensky dismisses army commander-in-chief
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the dismissal of army commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrsky, whom his detractors accuse of showing little regard for human losses, whom he replaced with the popular commander of the joint forces, Mykhaïlo Drapaty.
I have decided that Mykhailo Drapatyi will become the new Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Together with Mykhailo, Yevhenii Khmara, and Pavlo Palisa, we determined how the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine should be reconfigured. It is a fact that… pic.twitter.com/spK2B2ppHP
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Volodymyr Zelensky (@ZelenskyyUa) July 21, 2026
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“I have decided that the new commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be Mykhailo Drapaty… I thank Oleksandr Syrsky and all our fighters for the strong front-line positions of Ukraine,” Volodymyr Zelensky said.
