India, July 18 -- At least seven warehouse workers were killed and more than two dozen others injured after waves of Ukrainian drone attacks struck Russia's Tambov region, while another strike sparked a fire at an oil depot near Moscow, Russian authorities said on Saturday.

The dead were working the night shift at a warehouse owned by Wildberries, Russia's largest online retailer, in the city of Kotovsk. Regional officials said air defence systems intercepted several drones, but some reached their targets.

Tambov Governor Evgeniy Pervyshov said 25 people were injured in the warehouse attack, while another drone strike caused a blaze at an oil depot in Noginsk, east of Moscow. Two people were reportedly injured in the oil depot incident,...