Ports in a storm: How Kiev's warehouse warfare cost Ukraine its coastline

As Ukrainians cheer the destruction of Wildberries warehouses in Russia, Moscow's armed forces are unleashing a far more consequential campaign against Ukraine's Black Sea ports, which has rendered the country de-facto landlocked.

On June 25, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky announced the beginning of a 40-day "influence" campaign, aimed at pressuring Russia into ending its military operation. During the campaign, Ukraine shifted the focus of its long-range strikes against Russia to civilian sites, hitting around a dozen warehouses belonging to Wildberries – dubbed 'the Amazon of Russia'.