Ukraine targets Russian warehouses, claims 5 lives

Ukrainian drones struck three warehouses ​across Russia overnight, including two run by ‌online retailer Wildberries, killing five people, local officials said on Tuesday.

Wildberries, which has become a frequent target of Ukrainian ​attacks - part of what Kyiv says is ​a campaign to bring the war home ⁠to ordinary Russians - said its warehouse near St ​Petersburg had caught fire but that there were ​no casualties.

In the Tver region, to the northwest of Moscow, another Wildberries facility was damaged by drones, Vitaly Korolyov, ​the acting regional governor said. Nobody was ​hurt in that attack.

But in the Moscow region, home to ‌22 ⁠million people, a drone attack on the city of Chekhov set an unnamed warehouse alight and killed five people, the governor, Andrei Vorobyov, said. ​A further ​10 people ⁠were injured.

Kyiv has sought to disrupt the operations of Wildberries, which is ​often described as Russia's answer to Amazon and ⁠is a linchpin of the consumer economy.

The company's founder and CEO, Tatyana Kim, has called the ⁠Ukrainian ​attacks – which have targeted more ​than a dozen Wildberries sites since July 18 – "acts of terrorism".

-Reuters