Ukraine on Sunday hit a warehouse belonging to Russian e-commerce giant Ozon for the second day running, as Kyiv vowed to expand its attacks on logistics sites.<\/p>\n
Ukraine has for weeks mounted a campaign targeting Russia’s Wildberries — the country’s top online retailer — alleging it supplied components to the military.<\/p>\n
Ozon is Russia’s second-largest online marketplace, with its pick-up points and delivery boxes ubiquitous across the country.<\/p>\n
Both companies have been dubbed “Russia’s Amazon”, due to their control over a huge swath of the fast-growing e-commerce sector.<\/p>\n
Ozon said Sunday a fire had broke out at its logistics hub in the central Orenburg region after a drone attack.<\/p>\n
“Operations at the warehouse are currently suspended,” the company added.<\/p>\n
The strike came a day after an Ozon centre in the neighbouring Samara region was hit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The company said an unspecified number of its workers were wounded in that attack.<\/p>\n
Ukraine’s military on Saturday said it was launching a new campaign targeting the company.<\/p>\n
“After Ukrainian units hit the 15 largest logistics hubs of Wildberries, it is now Ozon’s turn,” the defence ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n
A logistics centre next to an Ozon facility on the outskirts of Saint Petersburg was also hit overnight.<\/p>\n
The attacks on the warehouses — typically easier to reach than heavily-defended military installations — have already delivered economic losses worth billions of dollars.<\/p>\n
Several of the facilities that were hit — packed full of flammable products — were completely destroyed.<\/p>\n
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday pledged support for Wildberries amid the strikes, saying the government would help rebuild logistics hubs hit by Ukrainian attacks.<\/p>\n
Russia has railed at the attacks on its “civilian infrastructure” more than four years into its full-scale offensive on Ukraine that has killed thousands of civilians and flattened cities across the country’s east and south.<\/p>\n
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