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Conflict● ElevatedJul 22 · Jul 22, 2026, 5:07 PM

Ukraine’s strikes on ‘Russia’s Amazon’ bring war closer to ordinary Russians

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from South China Morning Post

⁠From humble origins as a family business run out of an ⁠apartment near Moscow, Wildberries has grown in under two decades into Russia’s top online retailer and a key economic driver in the country. It has now become a target of strikes by Ukraine. Ukraine has attacked four Wildberries warehouses over the last week in a widening campaign of drone strikes against a company at the heart of Russia’s consumer economy, bringing the war closer to millions of ordinary Russians. In towns across Russia,...

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