MOSCOW: Russian fashion designer Viktoria Terekhova shipped virtually her entire summer collection of children’s clothes last week to the giant warehouse of online retailer Wildberries at Elektrostal, east of Moscow.
Within a couple of days, it was destroyed in a Ukrainian drone strike. Terekhova says she lost 12,000 items, amounting to about 45 percent of her company’s total inventory, and another 4,000 items in attacks on Wildberries hubs in southern Russia.
Eight Wildberries warehouses accounting for more than 10 percent of the company’s storage capacity have been attacked since July 18 in a wave of strikes against Russia’s leading online retail company.
They appear to be part of a wider Ukrainian campaign to make ordinary Russians feel the impact of a war which has raged on Ukrainian territory for more than four years.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said this week Kyiv was “bringing the war back home to Russia,” which continues to pound Ukrainian cities. Moscow accuses Ukraine of terrorism and attempts to destabilize Russia.
