# Ukraine hits Ozon logistics hubs in expanded Russia drone campaign

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/ukrainian-drones-strike-ozon-warehouses-across-russia-in-expanded-e-commerce-campaign/
- Published: 2026-08-24T11:08:42+00:00
- Updated: 2026-08-24T17:20:08+00:00
- Topics: Americas, Europe, World

## Key points

- Ukraine struck three Ozon warehouses over its Independence Day weekend
- New PM Andy Burnham visited Kyiv, pledged missile-tech support to Ukraine
- Russia recalled its UK ambassador amid worsening diplomatic relations

## Summary

Ukraine marked its Independence Day weekend with an expanded drone campaign against Russian e-commerce infrastructure, striking three logistics hubs belonging to Ozon, Russia's second-largest online retailer, while also attempting a strike on a military cosmodrome. Fires broke out at Ozon warehouses in Krasnodar and Makhachkala, with several people reported wounded in Makhachkala, while sites in Adygeysk and Nevinnomyssk were evacuated as a precaution and suffered no casualties or damage. Ukraine's defence ministry said the action, spanning three continuous days, followed earlier strikes on 15 hubs belonging to market leader Wildberries, which Kyiv accuses of supplying components to the Russian military; separately, NATO scrambled Romanian F-16s after a suspected Russian drone crossed into its airspace via Moldova.

The campaign coincided with new UK prime minister Andy Burnham's first foreign trip to Kyiv, where he pledged continued British backing and confirmed that UK components for the long-range Storm Shadow/Scalp missile system could now be shared with Ukraine for domestic production. Burnham joined French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and European Council chief António Costa for talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky under the Coalition of the Willing. Russia responded by recalling its ambassador from London, Andrey Kelin, after seven years in post, declaring relations with Britain at "an unprecedentedly low level" and warning of consequences over UK-linked drones striking deep into Russian territory. The warehouse strikes, seen as easier targets than defended military sites, have reportedly already cost Russia billions of dollars.

## Coverage

- [BBC World: Russia’s second-biggest online retailer targeted in Ukrainian strikes](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg598yvrzpro?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss)
- [Daily Mail: Ukraine hits major Russian shopping hubs in huge drone attack as Andy Burnham makes first trip to Kyiv](https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16075099/Ukraine-Russian-shopping-hubs-drone-attack.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490)

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