The people Vladimir Putin once tried hardest to appease are up in arms as his war on Ukraine hits them where it hurts.
Ukrainian drone strikes on warehouses belonging to the “Russian Amazon,” online retailer Wildberries, are leaving small business sellers counting the cost. The attacks, which began last Saturday, have killed at least nine people and wiped out billions of dollars’ worth of inventory, the Financial Times reports.
The entrepreneurs who depend on the platform for their livelihoods, many of them part of Putin’s core voter base, are now speaking out as their losses pile up.
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