Ukraine continued its campaign against the online retailer Wildberries, striking a warehouse in Yekaterinburg on Saturday in what Kyiv claims is the seventh attack this week on the company it accuses of supplying Moscow's military.
Videos from the scene depicted employees evacuating the logistics hub as vehicles in the parking lot caught fire, sending plumes of black smoke into the sky. Operations at the warehouse were suspended for at least four hours, though the company described it as a "planned evacuation."
Wildberries, which operates over 200 logistics facilities in Russia and occupied Crimea, has become a recent target for Ukraine. The company sells items such as body armor, helmets, and radios, some of which are marketed with phrases like "tested in the SVO" or "SVO fighters' choice," using the Russian acronym for its war in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has also accused Wildberries of supplying components for drones, including fiber-optic cables.
"It supplies components for the occupier’s aircraft and missile systems, which are used, in particular, in the massive attacks against our cities and communities," Zelensky wrote on social media platform X on Friday, justifying the strikes.
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The attack on the Yekaterinburg warehouse also prompted athletes and spectators at the nearby Russian Athletics Championships to leave the stadium and seek shelter.
Meanwhile, Russia reported that its forces killed at least 11 Ukrainians, including three children, and wounded 70 more across six cities on Saturday. Ukraine's Air Force stated that Russia launched two missiles and 157 drones overnight into Saturday.
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"They could not have been unaware that these were all civilian sites. In Kharkiv, a drone struck a high-rise residential building. An ordinary clothing market in Zaporizhzhia was burned down. Drone terror against people continues constantly," Zelensky stated on X on Saturday. He had warned on Friday that Russia had "readied missiles" for a significant attack within 48 hours.
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President Zelensky is scheduled to meet with U.S. President Trump in Washington on Tuesday. He is also expected to attend the funeral of Senator Lindsey Graham, a vocal supporter of Ukraine, who died on July 11. Graham had recently returned from a visit to Ukraine.
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Kyiv and Washington have been discussing a plan that includes an air ceasefire, intended to be presented to the Kremlin as part of a new series of peace proposals, according to a Ukrainian source.