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MOSCOW: Kyiv’s drones hit warehouses of Russia’s biggest online retailer for the second time in a week on Wednesday, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accusing the e-commerce giant of helping supply the Russian army.
The strikes hit Wildberries sites in southern Russia, just four days after Ukrainian drones sparked massive fires and killed eight people at the company’s site outside Moscow. Wildberries is the country’s top online retailer, often called Russia’s equivalent to Amazon.
The governor of the southern Krasnodar region, Vladimir Kondratyev, said one person was killed in Wednesday’s strikes, but it was unclear if it was at a Wildberries warehouse or elsewhere.
Kyiv has intensified its retaliatory strikes on Russia in recent months. Wildberries CEO Tatiana Kim said the company’s logistic centres in the southern cities of Krasnodar and Nevinnomyssk were attacked and evacuated.
