Editor's note: This is a developing story and is being updated.Ukraine's military reportedly launched a drone attack on the Russian city of Orenburg overnight on Aug. 23, striking an Ozon logistics center, Russian Telegram media channels reported.Photos and videos posted to social media purport to show smoke rising from the warehouse following a reported strike. Air raid alerts were active in the region ahead of the reported strike.The attack on Ozon, Russia's second-largest online marketplace and main competitor to Wildberries, marked the second reported strike on the company's facilities. The first direct attack on the company's logistics centers occurred just one night earlier on Aug. 22 in a Ukrainian attack on Samara Oblast.The Kyiv Independent cannot immediately verify the reports. Ukraine's military has not yet commented on the reported attack.The full extent of the damage was not immediately clear.After months of strikes on Wildberries facilities, Ukraine’s military appears to have shifted its focus to Ozon sites across Russia, with Ukrainian officials justifying the attacks on the grounds that the company sells goods to the Russian military."Systematic strikes on storage centers for dual-use goods are making it more difficult for the enemy to operate and are negatively impacting the overall economy of Russia," the Defense Ministry said after the Aug. 22 attack.Orenburg is located in southwestern Russia near the border to Kazakhstan, approximately 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) from the Russia-Ukraine border.Elsewhere in Russia, a massive blaze erupted at a warehouse in St. Petersburg overnight on Aug. 22, officials reported.Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said the first spread to engulf an area of at least 82,000 square metres (approximately 882,000 square feet) in the Kolpino district, southeast of central St. Petersburg.The fire, located in an industrial part of the city, reportedly burned adjacent to an Ozon logistics center, owned by Russia's second-largest online marketplace and the main competitor to Wildberries.The cause of the blaze was not immediately clear. Air raid alerts had not been declared in the Leningrad Oblast, nor were explosions heard in the area.
Ukrainian drones reportedly strike Wildberries rival, Ozon, in Russia's Orenburg
Ukraine's military reportedly launched a drone attack on the Russian city of Orenburg overnight on Aug. 23, striking an Ozon logistics center, Russian Telegram media channels reported.











