By New York Post (World News) | Created at 2026-07-25 21:09:09 | Updated at 2026-07-25 23:22:39
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Kyiv ramped up its tailored attacks on “Russia’s Amazon,” striking another Wildberries warehouse Saturday — the seventh attack this week on the online giant it accuses of supplying Moscow’s military operations.
Ukraine fired more than 300 drones into Russian territory Saturday — including toward the Wildberries warehouse in Yekaterinburg, Russia’s fourth-largest city.
Videos from the scene showed employees frantically fleeing the logistics hub, as vehicles went up in flames in the parking lot, with thick plumes of black smoke towering over the area.
Operations were suspended for at least four hours, according to the company, who tried to claim it was a “planned evacuation.”
Wildberries, which has more than 200 logistics facilities across Russia and occupied Crimea, has emerged as a new target of Kyiv over the past week.
The online retailer sells items that can be used by the military, like body armor, helmets and radios, with some even marked as “tested in the SVO” or “SVO fighters’ choice” — the Russian acronym for “special military operation,” the Kremlin’s euphemism for its brutal war on Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also accused Wildberries, which has $32 billion in sales volume, of supplying parts like fiber-optic cables that are used in drones.
“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 X Friday to justify the deblitating attacks on the retailer.
The devastating strike on Wildberries’ Yekaterinburg warehouse also forced athletes and spectators at the Russian Athletics Championships, which was being held in the city to leave the nearby open stadium and take shelter.
“This has never happened to me at competitions,” said Russian track and field athlete Anastasia Fedonina.
“In everyday life it has. Sometimes, even during training, we’ll have drone alerts and sirens going off.”
Meanwhile, Russia killed at least 11 Ukrainians, including three children, and wounded 70 more across six cities Saturday, firing two missiles and 157 drones overnight into Saturday, Ukraine’s Air Force said.
“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 wrote on X Saturday.
The Ukrainian leader warned Friday night Russia had “readied missiles” for a massive attack within 48 hours.
Zelensky will meet with President Trump Tuesday in Washington, where he also plans to attend the funeral of Sen. Lindsey Graham, who was one of Kyiv’s staunchest supporters before his sudden death on July 11.
Graham had just returned from visiting Ukraine two days earlier.
Kyiv and Washington have been discussing a plan for an air cease-fire to take to the Kremlin, as part of a new round of peace proposals, according to a Ukrainian source.
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