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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 \u200bthe Tatarstan region due to a Ukrainian drone alert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The evacuation took just a few minutes to \u200ccomplete and there were no casualties. The logistics centre was undamaged and has since resumed operations, the company said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A video verified by Reuters showed a plume of white smoke rising next to a blue-coloured Ozon warehouse. Another unverified video posted on social media showed \u200bwarehouse workers hurrying out of an Ozon warehouse and watching as a drone crashed into the ground some \u200bdistance away with a loud<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ukraine has attacked at least a dozen warehouses belonging to \u2060Ozon’s main rival, Wildberries, since July 18 in a bid to disrupt the operations of the company, a \u200blinchpin in Russia’s consumer economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ozon warned on Thursday of potential risks to its own infrastructure, and some analysts suggested it was just \u200ba matter of time before Ukraine began targeting Ozon warehouses too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ozon and Wildberries warehouses are located next to each other in many locations – including Zelenodolsk – and it was not clear on Friday which of the warehouses Ukraine was targeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ukrainian drone forces commander Robert Brovdi posted \u200ba cryptic message on Telegram on Friday however, which looked like a reference to Ozon in which he said that “the ozone concentration \u200bexceeds the critical norm.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(Reuters) 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 \u200bthe Tatarstan region due to a Ukrainian drone alert. The evacuation took just a few minutes to \u200ccomplete and there were no casualties. The logistics centre was undamaged and has since resumed operations, the company said. A video verified by Reuters showed a plume of white smoke rising next to a blue-coloured Ozon warehouse. Another unverified video posted on social media showed \u200bwarehouse workers hurrying out of an Ozon warehouse and… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60020,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60018\/revisions\/60020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}