A publishing house warehouse is on fire in Kharkiv following a drone attack
In Kharkiv, a Russian drone attacked the city’s Shevchenkivskyi district. One man was injured in the strike, and another employee of a publishing house remains unaccounted for. A massive fire broke out at a warehouse, with the area affected by the blaze reaching approximately 10,000 square meters.
This was reported by Oleg Synyegubov, head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration. According to him, one man was injured as a result of the drone attack. He received the necessary medical care.
At the same time, contact with another person who works at the publishing house has not yet been established. “One man was injured; another person, an employee of the publishing house, cannot be reached,” Synyegubov wrote.
A major fire broke out at the warehouse
The Russian strike caused a fire in a warehouse belonging to a local publishing house. The fire engulfed approximately 10,000 square meters. Earlier, Synyegubov reported that a warehouse caught fire following a strike on the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kharkiv.
Viktor Kruglov, CEO of the “Ranok” publishing house, also reported that the company’s warehouse had been hit. “A strike on the ‘Ranok’ warehouse in Kharkiv. Textbooks are burning… People are alive,” he wrote on Facebook. Rescue workers and other emergency services are on the scene. They are dealing with the aftermath of the attack and fighting the fire. Information regarding the condition of the victim and a publishing house employee who is currently unreachable is being verified. This was reported by Oleg Sinehubov, head of the regional military administration.
On the night of July 31, drones attacked several temporarily occupied cities in Ukraine. According to reports from monitoring Telegram channels, fires broke out following strikes in Zuhres, Berdiansk, Luhansk, Dolzhansk, and Sevastopol.
As a reminder, the Russian online marketplace Ozon evacuated employees from its logistics center in Zelenodolsk (Tatarstan) due to the threat of an attack by Ukrainian drones. After the alert ended, the warehouse resumed normal operations.
On the morning of July 31, drones attacked a warehouse complex in Zelenodolsk (Tatarstan, Russian Federation), where the logistics facilities of the Ozon and Wildberries marketplaces are located. Following this, a number of Ukrainian sources reported that strikes on Ozon warehouses might continue.
