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On July 18, 2026, Russia and Ukraine exchanged long-range strikes across each other’s territory, with Moscow targeting port infrastructure and military supply vessels in Ukraine’s Odesa region while Kyiv hit facilities in multiple Russian regions, including warehouses used by Wildberries, Russia’s largest e-commerce retailer.
Strikes on Ukraine
Russia’s Defense Ministry said it carried out a combined strike using air-launched precision munitions and attack drones. Ukraine’s Air Force reported that Russian forces employed two Iskander-M ballistic missiles, two Oniks anti-ship cruise missiles, three Kh-59/69 air-launched guided missiles, and 90 one-way attack unmanned aerial vehicles.
The primary target set for Russian forces that night was port infrastructure in the Odesa region, which is used to supply the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At the Odesa Sea Commercial Port, strikes hit fuel and lubricant storage tanks and supporting offloading infrastructure. In the neighboring port of Chornomorsk, a container ship was struck, while a cargo ship transiting near Snake Island was also attacked. Russian authorities said both vessels were carrying military supplies for Ukrainian forces, with the Chornomorsk ship in the process of unloading ammunition.
Strikes continued after daybreak. Russian drones hit dry cargo vessels in the port of Pivdennyi, as well as two ships carrying military cargo that were anchored off the port of Odesa awaiting unloading. Local Telegram channels reported a fire aboard one of the struck vessels near the Odesa coast.
Over the week leading up to July 18, Russian forces conducted 19 group strikes on Ukrainian ports. Targets included not only Odesa, Chornomorsk and Pivdennyi but also the Dnipro-Buh estuary port complex. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, 24 vessels operating in support of Ukrainian forces were hit over that period, including 14 dry cargo ships, three ro-ro ferries, two container ships, a tanker and a pipe-laying vessel.
Beyond the Odesa axis, Russian strikes also targeted Ukraine’s interior. In Dnipro, Geran drones struck a warehouse multiple times, while in Kryvyi Rih, additional locomotives were hit. In the Chernihiv region, a strike hit a fuel depot in the town of Korop. Of particular note was an attack on an agro-industrial complex on the outskirts of Chernihiv. Ukrainian forces had been using the facility for military purposes, according to Russian sources: military equipment, mobile air-defense vehicles and field-supply stocks were concealed there. The strike destroyed or damaged that equipment, and Ukrainian military casualties were reported at 14 killed and more than 20 wounded.
On July 17, Russian drones also struck energy infrastructure. Geran-4 drones knocked out the Bazylivshchyna well-completion technical center, operated by state energy giant Naftogaz in the Poltava region, as well as a Naftogaz natural-gas production facility in the Kharkiv region.
In the Black Sea and the Yahorlyk Bay, Lancet loitering munition crews destroyed two Ukrainian uncrewed surface vessels.
Strikes on Russia
Russian air-defense forces said they repelled a mass drone attack, intercepting 379 Ukrainian UAVs over 20 Russian regions, according to official figures.
The most high-profile strikes targeted facilities belonging to Wildberries, Russia’s largest e-commerce marketplace. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed he had ordered the deliberate targeting of Wildberries warehouses in the Moscow and Tambov regions, arguing that the facilities were being used to supply components for drone production and navigation equipment. In the attack on the Kotovsk warehouse in Tambov Region, seven employees were killed and 26 wounded. The drones were fitted with fragmentation warheads, amplifying the destructive effect.
An even more severe situation unfolded in Elektrostal, outside Moscow, where a drone strike all but destroyed warehouse space. The building structure began to collapse, injuring 24 workers. Across the Moscow region strikes, Gov. Andrei Vorobyov said 61 people were injured, including nine in serious condition and 31 in moderate condition. The majority of casualties — 57 — were in Elektrostal.
In Noginsk, a fire broke out at an oil depot operated by an independent fuel-market operator with 24 storage tanks and a total tank-farm capacity of 11,500 cubic meters.
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at this stage, why are there any ukraine ports operational
why does ukraine even exist at this point?
because the oligarchy and the wealthy russian people who live in eu countries dont allow that putin attacks same targets in eu countries.
afu continues to hit moscow!
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by definition e-commerce is civilian targetting. why did the west destroy all the initiatives for peace the un stood for?
ukraine is now gaza, there are hamas terrorists in every building, house, hospital and kindergarten…bombs away, burn baby burn…hehehehe