Ukraine hits warehouses of top Russian retailer
Ukrainian drone strikes have targeted warehouses belonging to the Russian online retailer Wildberries, causing casualties and significant fires. These attacks appear to be part of a broader strategy by Kyiv to disrupt the Russian consumer economy and war effort.
Why it matters
The targeting of major commercial infrastructure marks an escalation in the conflict, moving beyond military targets to impact the domestic Russian economy.
Another attack on the warehouses of Russia's largest online retailer, Wildberries, has injured several people, said the head and co-founder of the company.
The attacks on a company so central to the consumer economy appear to mark a widening of Kyiv's strategy of using long-range drones to disrupt Russia's war effort and pressure the Kremlin to make peace.
Tatyana Kim said the warehouses in Krasnodar and Nevinnomyssk had been attacked.
Social media footage, verified by Reuters, showed a huge plume of smoke rising into the air in Krasnodar.
Local authorities also said one worker was killed in another southern city, Armavir, when drone debris fell on one of the enterprises.
Krasnodar regional governor Veniamin Kondratiev also said that 10 people were wounded in an attack on a storage complex, while drone debris has damaged two high-rise apartments in Krasnodar, where no one was injured.
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