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Russia's businesses under strain from Ukraine's attacks on Wildberries
- Drupon 2mo ago[flagged]
- techterrier 2mo agolots of folks would probably cheer the odd data center getting lit up!
- piker 2mo agoIt doesn't seem Ukraine's end goal is for Russians to be happy about it.
- SubiculumCode 2mo agoThere comes a time. How many apartments have been bombed by Russia?
- p-e-w 2mo agoThe laws of war apply at all times to all belligerents, and the enemy breaking them does not justify breaking them in turn. If the current global crisis ever ends, how the world deals with human rights violations on both sides of this conflict will reveal whether any of this actually matters, or whether it’s all just a slugfest where the only objective is to determine who comes out on top.
- Xalutiono 2mo agoI never understood 'laws of war'. there is no law in war. Please country a only fight with this type of attacks so that the people you kill are only people forced to fight against you to protect themselves but not the civilians. War is war. You kill and destroy a country thats it. Its not a conflict? Russia/Putin started to attack Ukraine. Thats it, russia is bad, ukraine is not. Oh no don't use cluster bombs they are bad / different bad than normal bombs. Btw. if countries like the USA wouldn't create cluster bombs, Saudi Arabia couldn't use them against civilians.
- yukai 2mo ago[flagged]
- Xalutiono 2mo agoBecause every other country on the planet would declare war and i would also assume USA would assesinate Putin for it.
- yukai 2mo agoso there are laws of war. you speak too big for how much you think
- microtonal 2mo agoEarly in the war there have been discussions about this and the rumblings were that Russia wanted to use tactical nukes on the battlefield, but China said "no". https://www.newsweek.com/china-news-reacts-after-russia-changes-nuclear-war-policy-ukraine-1947545 https://www.newsweek.com/china-news-reacts-after-russia-chan... Apparently they still regularly do: https://www.politico.eu/article/volodymyr-zelenskyy-china-urged-vladimir-putin-not-use-nuclear-weapons-in-ukraine/ https://www.politico.eu/article/volodymyr-zelenskyy-china-ur... I am happy that some cooler heads prevail.
- excieve 2mo agoThere's no such thing as "both sides" here. It's a fundamentally flawed argument in this war. One country launched an unprovoked full scale war on a much smaller country with the goal of a colonial conquest (hopefully that's very clear by now). The amount of atrocities it has already done against Ukraine and its people will never be outweighted by pretty much anything Ukraine can do in the future as a part of its literal survival efforts. Besides this, the laws only exist when there's something to enforce them. Has anything (apart from Ukraine's "kinetic sanctions") been enforcing much on the invader to make them obey those "laws"? At least treating POWs with dignity (like Ukraine generally does btw) and not putting them through the Gulag system that russia has revived with newfound cruelty?
- Drupon 2mo ago[flagged]
- SideburnsOfDoom 2mo agoCould you expand on that please - what exactly do you mean and how did you arrive at that conclusion?
- Drupon 2mo ago[flagged]
- blitzar 2mo ago> Wonder if we'd be as pumped about it here in the US if Iran managed to carry out similar attacks intended to ideologically attack and manipulate civilians by terror You mean if Iran did what the US are doing? I am guessing the US would cry foul and say it was unfair. Maybe follow it up and say something like "if they don't stop we will erase their civilisation"
- igravious 2mo ago[flagged]
- microtonal 2mo agoIn case you missed it in the guidelines: Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html This is probably why your comment is getting downvoted.
- igravious 2mo agoAt the time I posted my comment their post was down-voted and it was obvious why so but articulating that is verboten? Oh dearie me, whatever shall I do. I know about the guidelines, I've been on here since 2010, like yourself.
- walrus01 2mo agoThere's plenty of screenshots and info online showing that wildberries was (and still is) stocking and selling single use munition FPV parts for use by russians building drones for their own offensive military operation against Ukraine. If you turn your warehouse into a storage depot for military equipment don't be surprised if the country you've invaded bombs it. The ukrainian leadership has been quite clear that attacks such as this against valid munitions-warehousing facilities will cease once the russians withdraw from the territory they have temporarily occupied and back to their original borders.
- ButlerianJihad 2mo agoThere's plenty of screenshots and info online showing that the Neiman Marcus cookie recipe costs $250
- deniska 2mo agoI mean… https://www.amazon.com/s?k=fpv+pcb https://www.amazon.com/s?k=fpv+pcb
- Drupon 2mo ago[flagged]
- toasty228 2mo agoIt's OK, there is no war anyways, it's just a short lived infrastructure restructuration operation on foreign territory, the US is doing the same right now so it seems to be allowed.
- danmaz74 2mo agoRussia has been doing the same for years - especially trying to destroy all electrical and heating infrastructure during Winter. Ukraine has the right to retaliate, now that they're able to.
- SideburnsOfDoom 2mo agoTo add to this, Russia recently attacked Ukraine's post and parcel infrastructure (1). Does this not very simply constitute yet another large scale attack by Russia on civilian infrastructure? But mostly, this site in Russia is a legitimate target because it supplies the Russian military. > intended to ideologically attack and manipulate civilians by terror Do you mean ... rid Russian civilians of the notion that they can ignore the war that Russia started, because it's happening "over there, not here" ? Well, yes, that too. No doubt the civilians are complaining now that it's not fair. It wasn't fair when the missiles went the other way, but they could ignore that. Public opinion matters, less so in Russia but it still matters. But targeting military logistics matters more. 1) https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/russia-strikes-nova-poshta-terminal-in-kharkiv-1784465832.html https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/russia-strikes-nova-poshta-t... https://www.kyivpost.com/post/78220 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/78220
- fybe 2mo agoIt is a civilian infrastructure target, which is being used by the military for storage, warehousing and distribution. Items such as drone parts, drone release mechanisms for payloads, fiber optic spools, body armor gear and the logistics network. If US was using walmart to supply troops, even if its mostly used by civilians it could make it a legitimate target
- hdgvhicv 2mo agoPretty much yes. Russia Launched a massive invasion on a smaller country and they are fighting back. America did the same with Iran. Same as the United arab would did against Israel. Twice. Insert “are we the bad guys” meme.
- RivieraKid 2mo agoYou're not the bad guys, there's a huge difference between the attack vs Iran and the attack vs Ukraine. Iran is an authoritarian regime which repeatedly said that Israel should cease to exist, has killed tens of thousands of their own people, aims to obtain nuclear weapons and supports 4+ terrorist organizations in the Middle East.
- microtonal 2mo agoSo abducting the leader of one country (against international law) and killing the leader of another country (against international law) is fine? aims to obtain nuclear weapons After a certain country shredded a nuclear deal and made it increasingly hard for international organizations to do inspections. supports 4+ terrorist organizations in the Middle East Because the US has never supported, funded, and trained terrorist organizations? --- In this case, in contrast to Ukraine, it's also possible that both sides are the bad guys.
- RivieraKid 2mo ago> So abducting the leader of one country (against international law) and killing the leader of another country (against international law) is fine? Depends on the leader and the country. Abducting or killing Hitler would be fine. The problem in this case was that killing the leader isn't enough to change the regime. But the regime is objectively evil and much more so than the US. > After a certain country shredded a nuclear deal and made it increasingly hard for international organizations to do inspections. Fair point, but the issue with the previous deal was that it forced Iran just to pause the program. Now they're possibly invulnerable and it may be the case that there's no way to stop them from developing nukes. The regime should have been removed when Iran didn't have thousands of ballistic missiles.
- mcphage 2mo ago> Does this not very simply constitute a large scale attack on civilian infrastructure? No.
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- kombine 2mo agoDuring the past winters Russia was deliberately bombing energy infra in Ukraine with civilians left freezing in their apartments. I know that two wrongs don't make a right, but why should we expect Ukraine to fight cleanly against an invading force 5 times its size and resources, which has been obliterating its cities, occupied 20% of its land and committed every war crime imaginable?
- Citizen_Lame 2mo ago[flagged]
- joegibbs 2mo agoIt does, but I don’t think the Ukrainians will get much flak for it. Bombing consumer goods distributors doesn’t worry people as much as bombing food distributors or chemical warfare on farms (eg Agent Orange), and besides that direct strategic bombing of civilian targets was heavily used in WW2 without much backlash. I think they’d get a lot of flak if they started doing that.
- not-kinsale-joe 2mo agoI think the thought experiment of if Iran did this to the US is more interesting.
- Quothling 2mo agoYou obviously wouldn't, since it would be happening to you. It's war though. We don't like to talk about it but WW2 was won in parts by fire bombing major cities all over Germany. It didn't start that way, in the beginning the targets were mainly military, but as the war went on, things changed. I am not as familiar with the war in the pacific, but we all know that two nuclear bombs were used to avoid an invasion of Japan. That being said the modern war logisitcs (and economy) are sort if wild. Imagine the USA and Canada were in a land war and you needed parts for a bunch of drones. Rather than turning to your goverment or official military industrial complex, you'd turn to Temu resellers on Amazon to get your fiberoptic spool. Which means it's a legitimate target, but I suspect that it's also a great way to impact a lot of Russian citizens without fire bombing them.
- rasz 2mo ago>Does this not very simply constitute a large scale attack on civilian infrastructure? you mean like this "Russia Hits Nova Poshta Hub in Zaporizhzhia, Drone Attacks Kill 2 in Sumy" https://www.kyivpost.com/post/72051 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/72051 March 17, 2026 ? also https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/23/europe/russia-ukraine-conflict-wildberries-intl https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/23/europe/russia-ukraine-con... "A search for “military supplies” on the Wildberries website Thursday yielded over 78,000 items, including body armor, first aid kits and rations. The site also offers drone equipment, including FPV goggles and kit that can be used on the battlefield."
- flohofwoe 2mo agoAre you also so concerned about Russia lobbing ballistic missiles at Ukrainian city centers? > if Iran managed to carry out similar attacks Iran did manage to attack Amazon facilities, just not in the US: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/21/iran-war-update-five-things-to-know-after-resumption-of-hostilities.html https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/21/iran-war-update-five-things-... ...and the US also attacked 'civilian infrastructure' in Iran: https://www.dw.com/en/us-strikes-on-southern-iran-infrastructure-widen-war/a-78087402 https://www.dw.com/en/us-strikes-on-southern-iran-infrastruc... Not sure why Ukraine should be singled out and berated for attacks on what are essentially dual use facilities. At least Ukraine doesn't do obious terror attacks against civilians like Russia does.
- option 2mo agoGood job, Ukraine! Russia must be destroyed in its current fascist form.
- louthy 2mo agoI don’t think it’s fascist? More of a kleptocratic dictatorship. I agree with the general sentiment though!
- gattilorenz 2mo agoAlso “ethnocentric”. But as usual, we first need to have a shared definition of fascism. If we use Eco’s Ur-fascism, many aspects are there (the moral and cultural decadence of the West, which is both too strong and too weak)
- flohofwoe 2mo agoFor not being fascist, the propaganda and general 'optics' and messages coming out of Russia sure look a lot like Germany in the 1930s, and Ukraine is basically the same playbook as Sudetenland - both started with a claim that a suppressed German/Russian minority must be protected from atrocities by the Czechoslovakian/Ukrainian 'aggressors' by integrating those lands into the 'Reich'. Thankfully Putin is by far not as successful bringing a much smaller country to its knees than Hitler was.
- red-iron-pine 2mo agothe guiding intellectual stream of the Russian government is Dugan, as best exemplified in Foundations of Geopolitics. Dugan is unambiguously hard right and has intellectual ties to other openly fascist types. His ideology is explicitly ethno-centric and has a strong resemblance to classical Fascism (in the Ur-Fascism sense), and a looser one to German-style National-Socialist thought, esp. as it relates to Russian ethnic domination of Europe
- igravious 2mo ago[flagged]
- SubiculumCode 2mo agoUkraine's innovation and perseverance under extreme duress is inspirational. I hope they continue their path towards a stronger, more democratic and more corruption-free nation who can stand tall and resist tyrannical States like Russia
- ur-whale 2mo ago> and more corruption-free nation I'm really rooting for Ukraine here, and it looks like they are well on their way to succeeding pushing Russia out. But the corruption issue ... for this particular problem, old habits unfortunately die really, really hard. When corruption has become interwoven into the fabric of a society the way it has in Ukraine, and for such a long time, rooting it out will be very, very hard. This kind of stuff typically requires two generations to die out and a super strong, long-term political will. I hope they'll pull it off, but it won't be easy.
- txzl 2mo agoAny examples of nations that succeeded in this regard? (currently corruption-free states)
- mschuster91 2mo agoFormer Yugoslavia. From what I hear from my parents' generation, you couldn't do anything or it would take a serious amount of time without bakshish, today it' pretty frowned upon, at least in the EU countries. Serbia and Bosnia are a different game...
- jwr 2mo agoPoland, while not entirely corruption-free, has managed very well after the transition from Russian-dominated communism. For reasons I still do not understand, organized crime was rooted out in the 90s, and gambling restricted to almost nothingness (gambling is always tied to organized crime). Not perfect, but doing pretty well, and the effects can be seen.
- paganel 2mo agoRussia will cave in economically any minute now, they’ve been on the brink of economic collapse since March 2022. In fact rural Russia is poorer than Africa, so the sanctions are definitely working.
- igravious 2mo ago[flagged]
- Xalutiono 2mo ago"Ok guy" :D are you russian? anyway russia has a high GDP for sure but guess what it did the last 4 years? It threw that money into ukraine without getting anything from it. No new schools, no teachers / educated kids, no housing, no streets. Instead taking out massive loans, reducing their reservers. And now no one is willing to buy russian bonds. Russia is hurting itself A LOT and is now going after retirement money. Russia HAS to start selling oil again but has to spend a lot of time and money on fixing what got destroyed while the war is still ongoing and the tacktik clearly shows how well it works. Ukraine will not stop tomorrow just because. As long as russia is not winning or stoping this, its very very expensive for everyone in russia. Collapse no clue how you would define it but at least from a world power russia already collapsed. The only two things keeping russia at this 'level' is their oil and the nuclear threat.
- konart 2mo agoWhile I generally agree. this part: >No new schools, no teachers / educated kids, no housing, no streets. Is factually false on all accounts. (not sure I understand the "no streets" part though, are you talking about fixing pavement as a national sport?)
- Xalutiono 2mo agoRussia spends a lot of money on war and not on "new streets" or fixing existing streets. Long lasting infrastructure investments for longterm gains.
- gherkinnn 2mo agoThis is all good news, but one must remember that airpower alone does not win wars. > Overall then, the promise of strategic airpower, that it could win wars entirely or primarily from the skies, turns out so far to have been largely a mirage > Instead, efforts to use strategic bombing to coerce surrender have repeatedly shown that being bombed hardens civilian resolve to continue resisting. By contrast, bombing can have some effect on industrial production, but only in wars where that production matters and is available to be bombed > Crucially, the coercive effect of these bombing efforts is not only limited, but it is also not delivered via popular will but rather through the political calculus of the leadership https://acoup.blog/2022/10/21/collections-strategic-airpower-101/ https://acoup.blog/2022/10/21/collections-strategic-airpower...
- walrus01 2mo ago> By contrast, bombing can have some effect on industrial production, but only in wars where that production matters and is available to be bombed The russian oil refineries that have been very successfully attacked seem to meet the definition of this. One obviously useful thing for the Ukrainians to do is to cut off the supply of refined diesel and petrol to the Russian army's vehicles. If this also has the effect of causing significant pain to the russian domestic economy (lack of fuel for general civilian vehicle uses of all types), it has the additional benefit of being a very real and public pain point causing dissatisfaction with the average russian civilian.
- gherkinnn 2mo agoIndeed. And bringing the attacks deep in to Russia may embarrass the regime and may have led Putin to (allegedly) stage a frontline visit [0]. And yet we must never forget that there is no such thing as a wunder waffe and reducing German cities to rubble did not break the civilian resolve. Throughout the Russian invasion of Ukraine I saw a common pattern: one side gains a technological or doctrinal advantage, may or may not make progress, the other side adapts and the situation levels out again. 0 - https://xcancel.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/2073342563797381264 https://xcancel.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/20733425637973812...
- globalise83 2mo agoWhat Ukrainian software and hardware engineers are achieving, with very significant European support, is nothing short of inspirational. Within four years, under very tough circumstances, they have invented and deployed at immense scale all kinds of systems and technologies that previously didn't exist, allowing them to conduct warfare via remote control and spare their very limited manpower as much as possible. The level of innovation doesn't get the recognition or study it deserves.
- dalancer 2mo ago[flagged]
- konart 2mo agoI think attacks on WB have other reasons rather than milimtary equipment. You can find drone parts on any marketplace: Ozon, WB, Aliexpress Russia and Avito of course. And Avito in this case would be your first target if only Avito was not a craigslist "alternative". The real reason for attacking WB is that it has deeper connection to Putins pals and has larger logistic centers with lots of goods. WB won't be able to compensate this for the sellers and this will hurt a lot. It won't metter much for military oprations (if you are a soldier you ca just order from Avito or Ali) but this can disrupt internal logistics and hurt the economy greatly.
- simonh 2mo agoI think it's a way of inflicting a lot of pain on the Russian population in a very public way, without actually killing lots of Russian civilians. Obviously it's in no way bloodless, but inflicting casualties is not really the aim. Even after 4 years of war, when the conflict directly affects them, Russian civilians seem genuinely bewildered. They have difficulty comprehending why this is happening to them. They've hardly felt they've been in a war at all, for them it's mainly been an economic downturn.
- Klaster_1 2mo agohttps://wildberriesbingo.com https://wildberriesbingo.com
- Balgair 2mo agoBased on this, if I were working at the White Pillars WB, I would find another job and not go into work anymore.