The drone war found Russia's shopping cart, and it is not stopping. Ukrainian strikes hit four Ozon logistics centers overnight into Monday — in Makhachkala in Dagestan, Nevinnomyssk in Stavropol, Enem in Adygea, and Krasnodar Krai — with the marketplace confirming fires at its facilities. Several people were injured, according to UPI. [1][2]

The campaign is no longer incidental damage. Ukraine announced over the weekend that after striking the fifteen largest hubs of rival Wildberries, it was turning to Ozon, whose warehouses Kyiv says hold dual-use goods moving through military supply networks; Moscow's governors describe each fire as debris from intercepted drones. [2][3] Euronews counts six Ozon facilities targeted since Saturday alone, including a pre-dawn fire at the Dagestan hub that forced its suspension. [3]

Ozon is Russia's second-largest online retailer, and its hubs anchor e-commerce across exactly the southern regions now burning. The warehouse campaign rode the same night Russia launched 143 drones and missiles back at Ukraine, knocking power out across six oblasts — attrition by fulfillment network, in both directions. [1] A retailer can rebuild a warehouse; rebuilding customer trust in next-day delivery during wartime shortages is slower arithmetic. Between Kyiv's attrition ledger and Moscow's debris language sits a consumer economy losing fulfillment capacity region by region, ahead of a winter that tests delivery promises. [1][3]

-- DAVID CHEN, Beijing