Kyiv Broadens Drone Strikes to Russian Oil, Gas and Retail, Accepting Civilian Casualties
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Updated · POLITICO Europe · Aug 25
Kyiv Broadens Drone Strikes to Russian Oil, Gas and Retail, Accepting Civilian Casualties
3 articles · Updated · POLITICO Europe · Aug 25
Summary
Since July, Ukraine has widened its long-range drone campaign beyond military targets, hitting Russian oil and gas sites and Wildberries warehouses to deepen economic damage inside Russia.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has framed the strategy as bringing the war back home to Russia, and Ukrainian officials are increasingly treating Russian civilian casualties as an acceptable cost of those deeper strikes.
The shift marks a break from earlier phases of the war, when Russian civilians were largely insulated from Kyiv’s attacks despite years of cross-border fighting.
That broader economic campaign has already spread to e-commerce logistics: later reports said strikes also hit Ozon facilities, disrupting operations and knocking its shares down nearly 30%.