{"text":[[{"start":7.68,"text":"Ukrainian drones struck warehouses belonging to online retail group Wildberries and other targets across Russia overnight, killing five people in the Moscow region, a day after another attack left seven people, including three children, dead on a Black Sea beach."}],[{"start":23.92,"text":"Russian retailer Wildberries has become a key target for Ukraine’s long-range drones as Kyiv aims to bring Vladimir Putin’s war closer to home and destroy logistical networks that it believes are used to supply the Russian military with drone components and military equipment."}],[{"start":40.12,"text":"Since Ukraine began targeting Wildberries facilities in mid-July, at least a dozen have been hit by deep-strike drones and missiles, according to statements from authorities in Kyiv and FT analysis."}],[{"start":51.48,"text":"On Tuesday, a fire broke out at a Wildberries warehouse near St Petersburg, although there were no reported casualties. Another Wildberries facility in the Tver region, north-west of Moscow, was damaged without causing injuries, acting regional governor Vitaly Korolyov said."}],[{"start":68.18,"text":"But an overnight strike in the city of Chekhov in the Moscow region, where a drone attack set a facility ablaze, killed five people and injured 10 others, according to the region’s governor Andrey Vorobyov. It was not clear whether that warehouse belonged to Wildberries."}],[{"start":83.68,"text":"Kyiv sees Wildberries as a key logistical hub for the transfer of parts used to produce drones that have wrought death and destruction on cities across Ukraine."}],[{"start":92.72,"text":"Senior Ukrainian officials told the FT that the strikes on Russia’s version of Amazon are also a direct response to Moscow’s attacks on dozens of facilities belonging to Nova Poshta, the largest Ukrainian private postal service."}],[{"start":106.04,"text":"Russia fired one ballistic missile and 136 attack drones at Ukrainian targets overnight, according to Kyiv’s Air Force. A food storage facility was hit in Dnipropetrovsk region, according to local authorities."}],[{"start":118.56,"text":"Russian forces also launched guided aerial bombs at the city of Sumy, killing two girls aged five and 10 and an elderly woman, according to the regional governor Oleh Hryhorov."}],[{"start":128.8,"text":"The overnight drone barrages followed a Ukrainian strike on Monday that killed seven people, including three children, after the weapon hit a crowded beach in the Black Sea resort town of Gelendzhik, in the southern Krasnodar region. Forty other people were injured, with 17 taken to hospital, according to local authorities."}],[{"start":148.42,"text":"Video footage showed a drone flying towards a tree line before diving and exploding on the beach as tourists watched from the shore and in the water. A cacophony of small-arms fire from Russian air-defence systems can be heard in the video."}],[{"start":162.4,"text":"The drone appears to have been aiming for a nearby building used to manufacture Russian cruise missiles and other weapons but was instead brought down short of the target."}],[{"start":171.96,"text":"The Ukrainian military has not commented on the beach strike but President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly said that Kyiv does not target civilians."}],[{"start":180.84,"text":"Meanwhile, the death toll in Ukraine from Russian air strikes has surged. The United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) said last month that at least 293 civilians were killed and 1,990 injured in June, marking the deadliest month for civilians since April 2022. Some 282 civilians were killed and 1,794 injured in May."}],[{"start":207.46,"text":"Danielle Bell, head of the HRMMU, said the rising number of deaths “shows an alarming escalatory trend with mounting civilian toll, driven by the intensifying use of powerful weapons that are particularly deadly when used in densely populated urban areas”."}],[{"start":223.4,"text":"“This trend should serve as a warning that the risks facing civilians are not only persisting but growing in both scale and complexity,” she added."}],[{"start":237.44,"text":""}]],"url":"https://audio.ftcn.net.cn/album/a_1785838599_7393.mp3"}