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The Russian armed forces will soon launch retaliatory attacks against Ukrainian logistics. Russian President Vladimir Putin said this in an interview with the state news agency Dress up. «Do you want to interrupt our logistics? Well, then retaliatory measures will not be long in coming,” Putin said in the interview, after Kiev struck the warehouses of Russian e-commerce companies Wildberries and Ozon.
«Damage to the economy, but no benefit for Kiev»
Kiev’s attacks inflicted economic damage and caused losses, but brought no benefit to Ukraine. The Russian president declared it. «Naturally, attacks against civilian infrastructure, which are effectively unprotected, and above all against civilians, have inflicted economic damage on our country. They caused losses,” he acknowledged in an interview with the news service correspondent Dress upPavel Zarubin.
“A reversal of course in the confrontation with Russia could not happen, and it did not happen,” Putin said. “The Kiev regime and its financiers cannot obtain any advantages, have not obtained any, and will never obtain any,” he concluded.
The announcement on air defense
“Russia must expand its air defense system and improve coordination between security and civilian agencies.” This was stated by the Russian president quoted by the state agency Ria Novosti.
Attacks on e-commerce warehouses
The statements come after a series of Ukrainian attacks on Russian e-commerce logistics centers. During the night the drones hit an Ozon center in the Samara region, where a large fire broke out: according to the company, cited by the Russian agency Taxover 500 employees were evacuated in a matter of minutes, but there would have been casualties. Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev reported that several people were injured. This would be the first attack against Ozon, while the Wildberries hubs had already come under fire several times since last July.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had motivated those attacks by claiming that Russian soldiers and volunteers use e-commerce platforms to procure materials for the front, and had defined them as a response to Russian bombings against Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, including those of Nova Poshta, Ukraine’s main postal and logistics company, which Moscow in turn accuses of being used for military purposes.