‘All we could do was watch our merchandise burn’: Russian small business owners respond to losing their stock when Ukrainian drones hit two Wildberries warehouses

On the night of July 18, Ukrainian drones struck two Wildberries warehouses — one outside Moscow and one in the Tambov region. At least eight people were killed and more than 80 injured. One strike hit the company’s major logistics center in Elektrostal, which sent a smoke plume drifting more than 200 kilometers (almost 125 miles) and damaged up to 15 percent of the company’s total warehouse space. Firefighters still hadn’t fully extinguished the blaze a full day later. The fire destroyed…