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
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Read original at CNN →Kyiv’s attacks on Wildberries destroy billions of dollars worth of goods made, sold and bought by everyday Russians Standing in front of a vast warehouse engulfed in flames outside Moscow, Tatyana Mikhailova watched as…
Read original at The Guardian →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…
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At the Moscow offices of newspaper Novaya Gazeta, the corridors are silent. There is an overwhelming sense of emptiness. "There is no newspaper anymore," former chief editor Dmitry Muratov tells me in an exclusive interview, published on…
View source →Zelenskyy warns Putin will use Russian election, in which opposition to the war is banned, as pretext for major call-up of troops. What we know on day 1,631 Russian forces used ballistic missiles supplied by North Korea, Ukraine’s…
View source →Former CIA Station Chief Dan Hoffman discusses Russia's military struggles in Ukraine and concerns about expanding attacks in Europe. He highlighted Putin's threa
View source →Two Wildberries warehouses were hit by Ukrainian strikes overnight on Monday, with another site apparently linked to Russia's largest online retailer also damaged near Moscow. Ukraine has been targeting facilities operated by the company -…
View source →Four people have been killed by a soldier in Russian-annexed Crimea in an apparently random gun rampage. The Moscow-installed regional governor Mikhail Razvozhayev said the gunman opened fire on his fellow soldiers, killing one and…
View source →Russian anti-war politician Boris Nadezhdin said on Monday that he had left the country for the time being, weeks after Moscow designated him a “foreign agent” and disqualified him from running in a parliamentary election. “Hi everyone! I…
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