Millions of Ukrainian books incinerated in Russian drone strike — as Vladimir Putin looks to wipe out Urkaine’s culture, identity

More than 1.5 million books had already been destroyed in strikes on the Ukrainian book industry in July, as the Kremlin wages its campaign to destroy the country's national identity, according to the Ukrainian Book Institute.

Ukrainian drones conducted a massive coordinated operation early Saturday, August 1. Naval drones sank the Rosatom-affiliated container ship Yanina, a sanctioned vessel with a capacity of over 100,000 tons, approximately 130 miles from Novorossiysk. Concurrently, long-range SBU drones struck three major Bashneft oil re

Wildberries, Russia's largest online retailer which is equivalent to Amazon, has been targeted by a series of drone strikes by Ukraine in recent weeks

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An intense Russian missile and drone attack targeting the Ukrainian capital city Kyiv overnight into Saturday killed several civilians and wounded more than 20 people.

Photos show Russian missile and drone attack on Ukrainian capital Kyiv  AP News

MOSCOW, July 31 - Russia's second-largest e-commerce company, Ozon, said on Friday that it had been forced to evacuate its warehouse in the town of Zelenodolsk in the Tatarstan region due to a Ukrainian drone alert.

Russian e-retailer Ozon says Ukrainian drone alert forces it to evacuate Tatarstan warehouse  Reuters

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