Ukraine’s strikes on ‘Russia’s Amazon’ bring war closer to ordinary Russians

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Ukraine has targeted warehouses of Wildberries, Russia's top online retailer known as 'Russia’s Amazon,' with drone strikes in an expanding campaign. These attacks on key commercial hubs push the war's impact closer to ordinary Russian citizens and disrupt consumer economic activity.

⁠From humble origins as a family business run out of an ⁠apartment near Moscow, Wildberries has grown in under two decades into Russia’s top online retailer and a key economic driver in the country. It has now become a target of strikes by Ukraine. Ukraine has attacked four Wildberries warehouses over the last week in a widening campaign of drone strikes against a company at the heart of Russia’s consumer economy, bringing the war closer to millions of ordinary Russians. In towns across Russia,...