Ozon, Russia's second-largest online retailer, said on Telegram that work at its Chapayevsk logistics centre had halted after an overnight Ukrainian drone strike — the company's first facility hit after weeks of attacks on Russian commercial infrastructure. [1][2] The fulfilment centre spans roughly 75,000 square meters; manufacturer Fire Point said its FP-1 drones did the striking. [3][4]

Friday's account of the refinery war's stage discipline argued each attack names a plant and each plant produces a receipt. Saturday named a different target category and got a rarer document: the victim confirming itself. Russian governors have spent the summer calling these sites civilian infrastructure; Ozon's own statement describes a working warehouse stopped mid-operation. [1] The confirmation damages that minimization more than any geolocation could.

The context is a campaign measured in square metres. Ukraine began targeting Wildberries warehouses on July 18; at least 22 have been hit since, about 2.395 million square meters or 43 percent of capacity, goods destroyed valued between $5.2 billion and $8.24 billion. Ukraine's defense ministry says seven of Wildberries' ten largest logistics centres are disabled. [3]

E-commerce looks soft from a distance. From inside it, inventory is the economy, and Kyiv has decided what stocks Russian shelves sustains the war — so it burns the difference, one fulfilment centre at a time. [3]

-- KATYA VOLKOV, Moscow