‘Up in smoke’: Attacks on ‘Russia’s Amazon’ bring Putin’s war closer to home
Local residents walk past the smoke of a fire at the Russian e-commerce firm Wildberries' logistics complexes in the town of Elektrostal outside Moscow on July 18. 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.
- ▪Local residents walk past the smoke of a fire at the Russian e-commerce firm Wildberries' logistics complexes in the town of Elektrostal outside Moscow on July 18.
- ▪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
- ▪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.
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Local residents walk past the smoke of a fire at the Russian e-commerce firm Wildberries' logistics complexes in the town of Elektrostal outside Moscow on July 18. Tatyana Makeyeva/AFP/Getty Images Facebook X LinkedIn 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. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1652956513490-0'); }); Over the weekend, Ukrainian drones hit Wildberries distribution centers in Elektrostal in the Moscow region and Kotovsk in the Tambov region.
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