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Social media footage captured a Wildberries warehouse on fire after Wednesday's attack. (Social media via Reuters)
In short:
Ukraine has targeted warehouses linked to Russia's largest online retailer, Wildberries, for the second time in a week, with one person reportedly killed.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused the company of supplying the Russian army with drone components and navigation gear.
Meanwhile, Russia's defence ministry says it has carried out strikes on Ukrainian ports and vessels.
Kyiv's drones hit warehouses of Russia's biggest online retailer for the second time in a week, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accusing the e-commerce giant of helping supply the Russian army.
The strikes hit Wildberries sites in southern Russia on Wednesday, four days after Ukrainian drones sparked fires and killed eight people at the company's site outside Moscow.
Wildberries is the country's top online retailer, often called Russia's equivalent to Amazon.
The governor of the southern Krasnodar region, Vladimir Kondratyev, said one person was killed in Wednesday's strikes, but it was unclear if it was at a Wildberries warehouse or elsewhere.
Kyiv has intensified its retaliatory strikes on Russia in recent months.
Wildberries CEO Tatiana Kim said the company's logistic centres in the southern cities of Krasnodar and Nevinnomyssk were attacked and evacuated.
Ukrainian drones sparked fires and killed eight people at the company's site outside Moscow four days prior to the most recent attack. (Social media via Reuters)
"There are no words that can describe the feelings and emotions because of attacks on ordinary people, our employees," she said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv had struck "logistics hubs involved in supplying the Russian army with drone components, navigation equipment and other gear."
Mr Zelenskyy had previously said the company had been storing drone components.
The governor of the region alleges one person died from the attacks but the location of the death remains unclear. (Social media via Reuters)
He also said Kyiv had struck an oil depot as well as a "tanker and four cargo ships" in the Black and Azov seas, where Ukraine has in recent days intensified attacks.
Ukraine has disrupted Russian shipping in the Azov Sea, forcing Moscow to consider alternative shipping routes.
Ukrainian drones have hit as far as the Urals and Siberia and caused nationwide fuel shortages.
"We are, quite justly, bringing the war back home," Mr Zelenskyy said.
Ukraine has said that its strikes aim to damage Russia's war effort as well as to force the Kremlin to negotiate an end to more than four years of conflict.
The UN on Tuesday said that civilian casualties in the war rose 37 per cent in the first half of 2026.
Russia hits Ukrainian ports and ships
Meanwhile, Russia's defence ministry said on Wednesday, local time, that it had struck the Ukrainian cities of Odesa and Chornomorsk, hitting port infrastructure and vessels that it said were supporting the Ukrainian military.
The ministry said the latest strikes had targeted a dry-cargo ship unloading at Chornomorsk port, as well as a military cargo store and fuel and lubricant storage tanks.
It said it had also hit loading and storage facilities at Odesa, and a dry-cargo ship and a bulk carrier that were transporting cargo to Odesa for the Ukrainian military. Russian drones also hit three warehouses storing Ukrainian drones, the ministry added in a statement.
Reuters could not independently verify the content of the statement.
Nearly four and a half years into the war, Russia and Ukraine have stepped up military activity in and around the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, with each side attacking dozens of ships including oil tankers and cargo vessels.
AFP/Reuters
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