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Special Delivery: Ukraine Blows Up ‘Russia’s Amazon’

Special Delivery: Ukraine Blows Up ‘Russia’s Amazon’

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She was talking about a nighttime Ukrainian drone strike on the outskirts of Elektrostal, an industrial city some 36 miles east of Moscow. Since the start of this summer, Russians have been seeing and feeling the effect of those raids at the gas pump: long lines, closed gas stations, rationing. But the strike that so shook up the woman in the clip from Elektrostal was on a new Ukrainian target of choice: a warehouse belonging to Russia’s biggest online retailer, Wildberries, often nicknamed “Russia’s Amazon.” At least nine Wildberries warehouses—including a major hub in St.

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Special Delivery: Ukraine Blows Up ‘Russia’s Amazon’With its drone attacks on the e-commerce giant Wildberries, Ukraine hopes to ship the reality of war right to Russians’ doorsteps.Cathy YoungJuly 27Upgrade to listen9 minutes1963225A passenger plane flies past smoke rising from a Wildberries warehouse near Saint Petersburg after being hit by Ukrainian drones on July 24, 2026. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)“EVERYONE JUMPED OUT OF BED in the middle of the night, no one could understand what was happening,” said an elderly woman in a short video clip that went viral in Russia over the last few days. She was talking about a nighttime Ukrainian drone strike on the outskirts of Elektrostal, an industrial city some 36 miles east of Moscow. “Scary isn’t the word,” said the woman.

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