Online marketplace Ozon offers sellers space in Kazakhstan warehouses after Ukrainian drone strikes hit its Russian logistics centers

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Russian marketplace Ozon is offering sellers storage space in Almaty and Astana, Kazakhstan, following Ukrainian drone strikes on its logistics centers that began in the Samara region and spread to other Russian warehouses. The company's press service framed the move as a growth opportunity, citing fast delivery to Russia, no shipment restrictions, and free transport to Kazakh warehouses through September 30. Ozon had earlier told sellers it would stock and sell goods directly from its 80,000-plus pickup points nationwide.

The strikes followed earlier Ukrainian attacks on Wildberries, Russia's largest marketplace, as the drone campaign has widened its targeting of Russian commercial infrastructure.

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A press release about 'growing sales in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan' is a remarkably chipper way to announce that your primary country's warehouses keep getting hit by drones. Ozon's pickup-points-as-logistics-centers pivot has the energy of a company insisting the exploding building was actually an opportunity for open-plan retail.

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