‘This isn’t about fairness, it’s about survival’: What Meduza’s Ukrainian readers think about Kyiv’s strikes on Wildberries

Meduza has collected responses from Ukrainian readers reacting to strikes on Wildberries, a major Russian e-commerce marketplace. The attacks have damaged warehouses in Russia and sparked debate about whether hitting civilian-facing businesses is militarily justified. In their responses, Ukrainian readers defend the strikes as proportional self-defense in an existential conflict, noting that Russia has struck Ukrainian civilian infrastructure consistently since the war began. They argue that limiting Ukraine's military options to satisfy international perceptions of fairness would be strategically unreasonable against an aggressor with far greater military resources.

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