Russian soldier opens fire on comrades and civilians in Crimea

A Russian soldier in Crimea went on a shooting spree Wednesday, killing one of his own servicemen and three civilians before police arrested him. Two more soldiers and three civilians were wounded in the attack, according to Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Russian-appointed governor of Sevastopol.

"A tragedy in Sevastopol," Razvozhayev said in a post about the incident. "A soldier opened fire on his fellow servicemen, killing one person, before attacking civilians and killing three of them." He didn't specify what triggered the rampage or provide other details about the shooter's identity.

The incident comes as Crimea—the peninsula Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014—faces relentless Ukrainian strikes aimed at crippling supply lines and energy infrastructure. Kyiv's been targeting Russian military logistics there for weeks.

Meanwhile, Russian ballistic missiles hammered Kyiv early Wednesday, killing at least one person and injuring a dozen more. Buildings across several districts took heavy damage. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said rescue teams pulled two survivors from the wreckage of a destroyed warehouse near the city center. "There may still be people under the rubble," he warned. The strike also triggered an ammonia leak that emergency crews worked to contain.

Ukrainian drones kept up pressure on Russian targets Wednesday, hitting warehouses across the country. Several belonged to Wildberries, a major online retailer. One facility near St Petersburg caught fire with no deaths reported. In the Tver region, northwest of Moscow, a Wildberries depot in the rural area of Emmaus sustained damage. A drone strike on Chekhov in the Moscow region set another warehouse ablaze and killed five people in the nearby Novoselki industrial zone. Another Wildberries site near Krasny Bor in northwestern Russia got hit, wounding one person.

Lenta, one of Russia's biggest food chains, also took a hit when a drone fell on a distribution center in the Leningrad region near St Petersburg, injuring one worker.

Ukraine accused Russia of war crimes after releasing video of a Russian drone chasing down a street vendor in Kherson, a southern Ukrainian city. The man, in his 50s, dove under a vehicle and survived with shock and shrapnel wounds. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called it another example of what he termed "drone safari" against civilians. Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said the pilot would've known he was targeting a civilian and called it part of a deliberate Russian terror campaign.