One person was killed and 15 others were injured overnight in Ukrainian drone attacks in southern Russia, which notably targeted warehouses of e-commerce giant Wildberries, authorities said on Wednesday.
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The company, very popular in Russia, was targeted for the second time in a few days. The previous attack last Saturday on two major Wildberries warehouses near Moscow killed eight night shift workers and caused fires that virtually destroyed the facilities.
“Last night, our logistics centers were attacked in Krasnodar and Nevinnmyssk,” said Tatiana Kim, CEO of Wildberries, in a statement on Telegram, specifying that the attacks left “injured” and that staff were evacuated.
According to the governor of the Krasnodar region, Veniamine Kondratiev, ten people were injured in the attack on a warehouse complex there that caught fire.
One person was also killed when debris fell from a drone that struck a business in Armavir, he lamented.
In Nevinnomyssk, in the Stavropol region (south), where “a warehouse complex caught fire following a drone attack”, five people were injured, said regional governor Vladimir Vladimirov.
At 5:30 GMT, firefighting was still underway in the stricken warehouses in Krasnodar, as well as in Nevinnomyssk, according to local authorities.
For its part, the Russian Investigative Committee, responsible for the main investigations in the country, announced the opening of an investigation for “attack” due to “attacks by Ukrainian armed units against logistics centers in Krasnodar and Nevinnomyssk”.
More than four years after the start of the Russian offensive against Ukraine, strikes have intensified in recent months on both sides of the front, causing an increasing number of civilian victims.
