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strikeAug 16, 2026

Russia's richest woman built Amazon-like retail giant. Why is Ukraine attacking it?

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Russia's richest woman built Amazon-like retail giant. Why is Ukraine attacking it?

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  • currentsapi-gapfill(Mixed)By India Today World Desk

    Russia's richest woman built Amazon-like retail giant. Why is Ukraine attacking it? Russia said it had intercepted or neutralised 822 Ukrainian drones across 17 regions in one of Kyiv's biggest aerial attacks of the war. One of the sites hit was a huge Wildberries warehouse in th…

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