Putin orders a program to rebuild Russian logistics and warehouse facilities hit by Ukrainian strikes, while insisting the damage isn’t ‘critical’
Speaking at a meeting of the Council for Strategic Development and National Projects, Russian President Vladimir Putin said logistics and warehousing capacity damaged in Ukrainian attacks need to be rebuilt, including through state involvement.
Putin instructed the government to adopt a program to restore the country’s logistics capacity.
“That said, we need to keep in mind that restoring damaged facilities must be rebuilt at a qualitatively new technological level,” Putin said.
The president said Ukraine’s attacks on industrial and infrastructure facilities are harming the Russian economy. “Of course, there are no critical consequences from such attacks — there have not been any, and there cannot be any,” Putin said. “But they are certainly harming us — that’s obvious. We understand it, we see it, and we know it.”
Ukraine’s armed forces have regularly struck logistics centers run by the online marketplace Wildberries since July. Total damage from the strikes is estimated at hundreds of billions of rubles.
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