Russia, Ukraine and Amazon
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A series of Ukrainian strikes on the warehouses of Russia’s largest online retailer has sent potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in inventory up in flames, sparking an online furor among the country’s embattled small-business owners.
Since mid-July, Ukraine has carried out a series of attacks on Wildberries sites, saying they are used to help supply Russia's military.
Ukraine has damaged 10% of the Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries' facilities. What would the same shock mean for Amazon in the US?
At least five people have been killed in a Ukrainian drone attack targeting a warehouse operated by the Russian equivalent of Amazon. Around 10 people were also injured in the attack on a warehouse belonging to Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer, in Chekhov, just outside Moscow, on Monday, the region’s governor, Andrei Vorobyov, said.
Drone attacks on warehouses belonging to Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer, killed at least eight people and injured dozens Saturday. In response, Russia fired some 50 ballistic missiles at Kyiv.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and its region have killed 17 people and wounded 44 others
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and its region have killed over a dozen people and wounded many others.