The attacks began on a July weekend and have continued for a month, stretching from Moscow and St. Petersburg, to cities in the south, and eastward to the Ural Mountains. The targets weren’t oil refineries, maritime hubs or arms plants hit by other Ukrainian strikes, but warehouses that bring the convenience of online shopping across the breadth of Russia.

Ukraine’s drones have pummeled the giant depots belonging to Wildberries, Russia’s biggest online retailer, burning billions of dollars’ worth of merchandise and bringing the war home to the broad public.

The attacks on about 20 Wildberries facilities have underlined Kyiv’s ability to strike far and wide inside Russia and posed a new challenge to President Vladimir Putin nearly 4½ years into his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

They have badly shaken the empire built by Tatyana Kim, the country’s richest female entrepreneur, whose fortune has been estimated at $8.1 billion.

  • TheparishofChigwell@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    Lol at terrorism during an attack on an agressor

    I hope they’re scared

    Yesterday I posted a comment at night on a national well known news websites article about the attack, mods removed it in the morning along with many other comments

    I said I hope the whole country gets asfalted

    I have never had over 300 upvotes on a comment there, and this was posted at night when nobody reads the news.

    The Netherlands cant wait to see them all beg

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      Ok. If all moral restrictions are forfeit as soon as you are defending against an aggressor, i assume that you’re cool with Iran (and countless other nations) absolutely liquefying the United States.

      I further assume that you’re a strong supporter of Hamas. I mean, given the bold moral framework you’re expressing here, surely you think October 7 was entirely justified, right?