Photos and videos show Wildberries warehouses in Russia ablaze after Ukraine’s latest strikes
Meduza
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Overnight on July 24, Ukraine’s military used drones to attack warehouses belonging to the Russian marketplace Wildberries for the fourth time in a week.
The strikes hit warehouses in Shushary (St. Petersburg) and the “Utkina Zavod” industrial zone (Leningrad region).
Fires broke out at the logistics complexes.
Smoke from the burning warehouses is visible from several kilometers away, and helicopters have been deployed to help put out the fires.
Wildberries said warehouse employees were not injured.
Meduza is publishing photos and video from eyewitnesses in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region.
Ukrainian Drones Ignite St. Petersburg Warehouses
- Major fire after Ukrainian strike on St Petersburg warehouse Al Jazeera —
- Ukraine hits Russia's largest online marketplace, hurting small businesses and bringing the war home PBS —
- Ukrainian drone strike ignites major blaze at Saint Petersburg warehouses Euronews —
- Russian entrepreneurs see stock go up in flames as Ukraine targets Wildberries The Straits Times —
- Ukraine’s pivot to warehouse strikes brings war closer to ordinary Russians The Guardian —