Warehouse of Russian online retailer Wildberries near St.Petersburg on fire after drone attack, governor says
Wildberries said the attack injured three people and disrupted operations as Ukraine broadens drone strikes on Russia’s logistics network.
- On Thursday, Ukrainian drone strikes forced Leading Russian online retailer Wildberries to halt operations at a warehouse in Voronezh, as Kyiv expands its campaign against critical elements of Russia's consumer economy.
- Kyiv has struck four Wildberries warehouses since last weekend, claiming the facilities support the Russian military, though the Kremlin denies the company handles military supplies.
- Open source data analysis shows recent attacks damaged approximately 10% of Wildberries' logistics capacity, or 552,000 square metres, while the Kremlin acknowledged financial losses for the company and its sellers.
- Following the attack, Wildberries operations in Voronezh remain closed, while Vladimir Vladimirov, governor of Russia's southern Stavropol region, confirmed emergency services extinguished a fire at a logistics centre in Nevinnomyssk.
- As Russia continues targeting Ukraine's logistics hubs and power grid, Wildberries and top competitor Ozon employ 4 million people and sell goods worth 8.5% of Russia's gross domestic product.
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A Ukrainian attack on a resort in the Russian-occupied part of the Zaporozhye region in the south of the country has killed eight people, including two children, and wounded 14 others. Meanwhile, Russia is reporting a large-scale attack with hundreds of drones as far as the Urals region.
Ukrainian drones reached the city of Ekaterinburg this Saturday, at the entrance to Siberia, where a logistics center was targeted.
Ukraine launched on Saturday more than 300 drones in Russia, killing at least two people in a border region and reaching targets up to Ekaterinburg, Ural, according to Moscow. ...
Drone threat in Russia's Yekaterinburg disrupts Wildberries operations and athletics championships
YEKATERINBURG, Russia July 25 - A drone threat prompted leading Russian online retailer Wildberries to evacuate its logistics hub on Saturday in the city of Yekaterinburg, where the national athletics championships were also briefly suspended. Read more at straitstimes.com.
In its fight against the Russian war of aggression, Ukraine mainly uses drones. This has consequences in the Russian hinterland - and at the largest mail orderer of the country.
Moscow. Ukraine struck in the early morning of Friday against new logistics centers of the electronic commerce company Wildberries in St. Petersburg and Crimea, while Russia launched three Iskander-M/S400 ballistic missiles in broad daylight, at 11:30 in the morning, against a polygon outside Kiev during the presentation of new drone models.
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