Yekaterinburg

Vladimir Tkachuk, director of Uraldronzavod factory producing Upyr drones for the Russian military, was hospitalized after a car explosion near Yekaterinburg. His driver was killed, and the incident follows recent attacks on other Russian drone manufacturers and a deadly bombing in Moscow.

Vladimir Tkachuk, founder and CEO of Uraldronzavod, was wounded in a car explosion and is in critical condition. Doctors are working to save his life.

The director of a Russian drone factory, Vladimir Tkachuk, was seriously injured in a car explosion near Yekaterinburg. Tkachuk led the Uraldronzavod factory, which produces Upyr drones for the Russian military. The incident occurred amid recent attacks on Russian officials, including a deadly bombing at a Moscow restaurant.

A man was arrested in Yekaterinburg after assaulting Russian scientist Nikita Zezin, who later died. The confrontation began when a group of children rode ATVs across crops at an experimental research field.

President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed Ukrainian defense forces conducted strikes on Russian military and logistics targets, including a defense manufacturing plant in Kirov, an oil refinery in Tyumen, a logistics facility in Yekaterinburg, a fuel depot in Rostov-on-Don, a warship, and sanctioned cargo vessels in the Caspian Sea.

Ukrainian attacks killed two people in Belgorod and targeted a Wildberries warehouse in the Urals. Wildberries suspended operations and evacuated workers at its logistics facility in Yekaterinburg.

A large fire occurred at a suspected military facility near the Engels-2 airbase in Russia’s Saratov region, and a drone strike hit a Wildberries logistics warehouse in Yekaterinburg during an overnight attack. The fire was near Engels-1 street, close to an airfield previously targeted by Ukrainian drones, while the Yekaterinburg strike was part of an ongoing campaign against Wildberries' logistics network.

Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan made his first trip to Russia since re-election, attending the plenary session of the annual Innoprom industrial exhibition in Yekaterinburg.