MOSCOW(National Times)- Kyiv\u2019s drones hit warehouses of Russia\u2019s biggest online retailer for the second time in a week on Wednesday, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accusing the e-commerce giant of helping supply the Russian army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The strikes hit Wildberries sites in southern Russia, just four days after Ukrainian drones sparked massive fires and killed eight people at the company\u2019s site outside Moscow. Wildberries is the country\u2019s top online retailer, often called Russia\u2019s equivalent to Amazon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The governor of the southern Krasnodar region, Vladimir Kondratyev, said one person was killed in Wednesday\u2019s strikes, but it was unclear if it was at a Wildberries warehouse or elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kyiv has intensified its retaliatory strikes on Russia in recent months. Wildberries CEO Tatiana Kim said the company\u2019s logistic centres in the southern cities of Kra\u00adsnodar and Nevinnomyssk were attacked and evacuated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere are no words that can describe the feelings and emotions because of attacks on ordinary people, our employees,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv had struck \u201clogistics hubs involved in supplying the Russian army with drone components, navigation equipment and other gear.\u201d Zelensky had previously said the company had been storing drone components.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also said Kyiv had struck an oil depot as well as a \u201ctanker and four cargo ships\u201d in the Black and Azov seas, where Ukraine has in recent days intensified attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ukraine has disrupted Russian shipping in the Azov Sea, forcing Moscow to consider alternative shipping routes. Ukrainian drones have hit as far as the Urals and Siberia and caused nationwide fuel shortages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are, quite justly, bringing the war back home,\u201d Zelensky said. Ukraine has said that its strikes aim to damage Russia\u2019s war effort as well as to force the Kremlin to negotiate an end to more than four years of conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The UN on Tuesday said that civilian casualties in the war rose 37 per cent in the first half of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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