‘Up in smoke’: Attacks on ‘Russia’s Amazon’ bring Putin’s war closer to home | CNN

A series of Ukrainian strikes on the warehouses of Russia’s largest online retailer has sent potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in inventory up in flames, sparking an online furor among the country’s embattled small-business owners. Over the weekend, Ukrainian drones hit Wildberries distribution centers in Elektrostal in the Moscow region and Kotovsk in the Tambov region. A second wave of attacks early Wednesday hit logistics warehouses in the Krasnodar and Stavropol regions, while state media in the southwestern Voronezh region also reported that a drone strike forced the closure of a Wildberries warehouse there late Wednesday into Thursday. On Friday, Ukrainian missile and drone producer FirePoint said Ukrainian FP-1 drones struck two additional Wildberries logistics hubs in Russia – the Shushary logistics complex in St. Petersburg and the Utkina Zavod facility in Leningrad region — and the company’s Simferopol logistics hub in Russian-occupied Crimea. Wildberries said Friday that the center in Simferopol had been evacuated and operations at Shushary and Utkina Zavod had been temporarily suspended. The strikes on Wildberries, Russia’s equivalent to e-commerce