Ukrainian drone attacks destroy over 11 million books at Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries

More than eleven million books have been destroyed in Russian e-commerce logistics centers following Ukrainian drone attacks over recent weeks, Russian publishing sources reported Friday. The centers, operated by Wildberries, Russia's equivalent of Amazon, saw fiction, children's literature, and scientific works consumed by flames, according to the Russian newspaper Vedomosti. Exmo-AST, a major Russian publishing group, confirmed that entire print runs of "Alphabet" by Nadezhda Zhukova and a new edition of the Russian Constitution were lost, along with highway maps. Works by RT television channel director Margarita Simonyan and nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin, a strong supporter of Russia's military intervention in Ukraine, were also among the destroyed titles. Ironically, Ray Bradbury's science fiction novel "Fahrenheit 451," about a future where books are banned and firefighters burn them, was also lost. Exmo-AST has since rushed additional print runs to compensate for the destroyed books. The attacks on Wildberries logistics centers, which began in mid-July, have caused over a billion dollars in damages and claimed the lives of about ten workers.

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