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‘Up in smoke’: Attacks on ‘Russia’s Amazon’ bring Putin’s war closer to home
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Advertisement AdvertisementThe strikes on Wildberries, Russia's equivalent to e-commerce giant Amazon, have brought Moscow's war on Ukraine even closer to home by disrupting the lives and livelihoods of ordinary Russians.
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.
Kyiv has acknowledged carrying out the attacks on Wildberries warehouses – and has said the facilities are legitimate military targets because they supply Russia's frontline troops in Ukraine.
We had never stored such a large volume of products in marketplace (Wildberries) warehouses.
But the Wildberries strikes are bringing home the war for Russians in a new way.