Ukrainian drone strikes have destroyed more than 11 million books stored at Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries' logistics hubs, including entire print runs of school textbooks, road atlases and a Russian edition of Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, after a sustained drone campaign targeting the company's warehouses since mid-July.
Among the incinerated stock were works by pro-Kremlin journalist Margarita Simonyan and nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin, a new edition of the Russian constitution and children's primers. Publisher Exmo-AST has begun reprinting destroyed titles to replenish supply. The latest strikes hit Wildberries' largest warehouse, a 200,000-square-metre facility in Podolsk south of Moscow, as Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 600 drones were directed at the region, with 201 intercepted.
Kyiv considers e-commerce logistics sites legitimate military targets because they supply the Russian army with equipment including body armour and helmets. Wildberries is accelerating plans to relocate storage operations to Kazakhstan to move beyond drone range.