Ukraine Hits Wildberries: Putin's Civilian Shield Isn't Working
Ukraine struck facilities operated by Wildberries, Russia's largest online retailer, across multiple Russian cities — St Petersburg, Tver, and the Moscow region — as part of an overnight campaign involving more than 300 drones, according to Russia's defence ministry.
Ukraine Hits Wildberries: Putin's Civilian Shield Isn't Working
Ukraine struck facilities operated by Wildberries, Russia's largest online retailer, across multiple Russian cities — St Petersburg, Tver, and the Moscow region — as part of an overnight campaign involving more than 300 drones, according to Russia's defence ministry. The warehouse network, hit for the twentieth time in a fortnight, has become one of Kyiv's most consistent targets: a supply chain wrapped in a civilian brand, struck with the logic that economic pain reaches Russians in ways that frontline losses do not.
The strikes came as Russian aerial bomb attacks killed two girls inside Ukraine. Russia simultaneously blamed Kyiv for a drone strike on Gelendzhik, a Black Sea resort town, where seven people died on a beach — three of them children. Each side is now killing the other's children and calling it the other's fault. That is where this war has arrived.
Per BBC News and The Independent, the pace of Ukrainian deep-strike operations has accelerated sharply through the summer. Kyiv is hitting civilian-adjacent infrastructure with deliberate repetition — not to destroy it entirely, but to signal that no corner of Russian economic life remains protected.
The choice of Wildberries is not random. It is Russia's answer to Amazon: 200 million monthly users, embedded in domestic routine, psychologically close to the population in a way a military depot is not. Strike it enough times and the war stops being something that happens to soldiers somewhere east. It starts happening to the person waiting for a delivery.
That is the point.
