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Seven dead in Russia as Ukraine drones hit commercial warehouses

Seven dead in Russia as Ukraine drones hit commercial warehouses

At least seven people were killed in Russia after hundreds of Ukrainian drones struck overnight, including Wildberries commercial warehouses.

At least seven people were killed in Russia overnight after hundreds of Ukrainian drones struck multiple locations, including warehouses of Wildberries, the country's dominant e-commerce platform, according to live reporting by French outlet Le Monde. Local authorities confirmed the death toll in one of the affected areas. 🔹 What happened: Ukraine launched a large overnight drone campaign targeting sites inside Russian territory. Wildberries warehouse facilities were among the confirmed targets hit. Russian local authorities reported at least seven people killed in one of the strike zones. At the same time, a new public call emerged in Kyiv for citizens to demonstrate in support of Mykhailo Fedorov, an official whose name has surfaced amid ongoing internal political tensions within the Ukrainian government. 🔹 Why it matters: Wildberries warehouses are workplaces: logistics staff, packers, delivery workers. The people inside those facilities when strikes occur are not policymakers or soldiers. Seven confirmed deaths put a human figure on an overnight operation that could otherwise be described in purely strategic terms. Back in Kyiv, the call for street demonstrations around Fedorov signals that Ukraine's domestic political tensions have not subsided, echoing divisions EPM reported during Zelensky's cabinet reshuffle — tensions that complicate the government's wartime narrative. 📌 EPM Take: Seven deaths in one strike zone is the number that should anchor this story, but the broader picture is what the targeting choice reveals. Wildberries is not an arms depot. It is a logistics and retail giant embedded in the everyday economy of ordinary Russians. Striking it may serve a strategic disruption goal, but the workers and bystanders in those warehouses bear the cost. This sits uncomfortably alongside Kyiv's simultaneous domestic mobilization call — a government asking its own citizens to take to the streets while its military strikes commercial infrastructure abroad. The question that Western publics will eventually have to confront: does the logic of economic warfare justify the human costs when the targets are civilian-adjacent, and who draws that line? ✍️ EPM Editorial Desk | erickprometeomedia.com
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