Russian woman detained for posting video of Wildberries warehouse fire after Ukrainian drone strike

Meduza reports that police in Krasnodar have detained a nineteen-year-old woman after she filmed and posted a video of a fire at a Wildberries warehouse struck by Ukrainian drones on July twenty-second. In the footage, which spread on local Telegram channels, she points at the blaze and remarks sarcastically that her mother is now out of a job. According to Meduza, officers said she violated a regional ban on distributing material about air defense systems and the aftermath of drone strikes, and made her apologize on camera; she faces a fine of thirty thousand to fifty thousand rubles. The strike on the logistics complex injured several people and later killed one. Ukraine's military has hit Wildberries facilities across six Russian regions in the past week, describing the campaign as an operation targeting logistics it says supply the Russian army.

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