# Ukraine hits major Russian shopping hubs in huge drone attack as Andy Burnham makes first trip to Kyiv

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/ukraine-hits-major-russian-shopping-hubs-in-huge-drone-attack-as-andy-burnham-makes-first-trip-to-kyiv/
- Published: 2026-08-25T05:37:26+00:00
- Updated: 2026-08-25T11:43:10+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16075099/Ukraine-Russian-shopping-hubs-drone-attack.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Americas, Europe, World

## Key points

- Ukraine hit Russian Ozon warehouses in a mass Independence Day drone campaign.
- New UK PM Andy Burnham visited Kyiv, pledged missile-tech support.
- Romania scrambled jets after a suspected Russian drone entered its airspace.

## Summary

Ukraine launched a large-scale drone campaign against Russian targets to coincide with its Independence Day, striking three major logistics hubs belonging to Ozon, Russia's second-largest online retailer, after previously hitting 15 warehouses run by rival Wildberries. Kyiv accuses both firms of supplying components to the Russian military, and the strikes, which hit facilities that are far easier to reach than defended military sites, are reported to have cost Russia billions of dollars. The attacks coincided with a first visit to Kyiv by new UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who pledged continued British backing for Ukraine and unveiled plans to help produce long-range Scalp missiles, built on shared UK-French technology, inside Ukraine itself.

Drone strikes hit Ozon warehouses in Makhachkala, Krasnodar, Adygeysk and Nevinnomyssk in southern Russia, causing major fires and leaving several people wounded in Makhachkala, while a warehouse belonging to homeware firm Kuchenland was also hit in Krasnodar. Separately, NATO scrambled two Romanian F-16 jets and a helicopter after a suspected Russian drone crossed into Romanian airspace near Târgu Bujor having overflown Moldova. Burnham met President Zelensky alongside France's Emmanuel Macron, Germany's Friedrich Merz and the EU's António Costa as part of the Coalition of the Willing, while Russia recalled its ambassador from London, saying UK-Russia relations had sunk to "an unprecedentedly low level" over British-supplied drones being used to strike deep into Russian territory.

## Coverage

- [Daily Mail: Ukraine hits major Russian shopping hubs in huge drone attack as Andy Burnham makes first trip to Kyiv](https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16075099/Ukraine-Russian-shopping-hubs-drone-attack.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490)
- [The Independent: ‘Who started the fire?’ Burnham challenges Putin on first trip to Ukraine as UK-Russia tensions grow](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/burnham-ukraine-russia-putin-war-b3038282.html)
- [The Independent: ‘Who started the fire?’ Burnham challenges Putin on first trip to Ukraine as UK-Russia tensions grow](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/andy-burnham-ukraine-visit-storm-shadow-russia-putin-war-b3038597.html)

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