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1642nd day. Zelensky announced a “corridor of opportunities” to end the war - from the end of 2026 to the summer of 2027. The Ukrainian Armed Forces hit the second Ozon warehouse
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Ukraine
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky called a new “corridor of opportunity” to end the war – “the end of this year and until the end of the summer of 2027.”
“The corridor of opportunities after the end of the war is from the G20 in the United States of America ( to be held on December 14-15, - Meduza’s note ) until the end of the summer of 2027, because then the US presidential elections begin,” Zelensky told reporters (hereinafter quoted from RBC-Ukraine).
“We believe that today this is the most active stage at which diplomacy can lead to the end of the war,” Zelensky emphasized.
In June, Zelensky said Ukraine had a “window of opportunity” before winter to strengthen its position at the front and secure a better position for negotiations.
In early August, Zelensky informed Ukrainian ambassadors gathered for a meeting in Kiev that the country's authorities were doing everything possible to end the war before the start of winter. However, he emphasized then, “we clearly understand who we are dealing with and that Putin hopes to drag out this war further,” including by preparing a new wave of mobilization.
Russia
For the second day in a row, Ukrainian drones struck warehouses of the Russian marketplace Ozon. On the night of August 22, the Ukrainian Armed Forces hit the Ozon warehouse in Chapaevsk, Samara Region, and on August 23, the logistics complex of the marketplace in Orenburg.
“After Ukrainian units hit 15 of the largest Wildberries logistics hubs, it was Ozon’s turn,” the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense announced.
The Ozon press service stated that 300 people were evacuated from the warehouse in Orenburg; according to preliminary data, no people were injured. The warehouse in Orenburg temporarily does not accept goods from sellers. Orders that were supposed to be delivered from this warehouse have been cancelled, and customers are promised a refund.
According to the Agency’s calculations, the strikes on August 22 and 23 disabled more than 2% of Ozon’s warehouse space. The area of the attacked warehouse in Chapaevsk, Samara region is at least 76 thousand square meters. In Orenburg in August 2024, Ozon opened the first stage of a warehouse with an area of 40 thousand square meters, and in May 2025 it was going to launch the second stage, doubling the warehouse space.
In total, Ozon at the end of 2025 had 50 fulfillment centers with a full cycle of processing goods and orders, including in Chapaevsk and Orenburg, and more than 150 delivery hubs. The total area of the company's warehouses is about 5 million square meters.
War through the eyes of Meduza readers
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Dmitry (Moscow) . For several years now I have become accustomed to waking up in a country under siege, and my country being under siege by my own government. For me, there is absolutely nothing in this conflict for which they are not to blame: every drone falling on every warehouse was called by them. Every death at the front is theirs and only their fault, maddened by their own power.
I'm tired of being practical. I’m tired of wondering “when will all this end,” how much longer I have to endure and what I should be afraid of. I'm tired of counting every step and every word, tired of being careful. And I’m also starting to be afraid - but not of a senseless, cynical war and not of those who want to drive me there (this fear is already somewhere in the background of my life). I am afraid of the growing hatred in myself, which is difficult to do something about.
I am afraid that all my abilities to react rationally to this conflict, to find compromises with the surrounding reality, all my escapist tricks and instincts protecting my health will fade away one by one, extinguished by the next psychosis of the machine. That any opportunity of mine to do at least something, to save at least someone, any of my small and big business will be blocked, meaningless by killers, paranoid guards obsessed with propaganda conspiracy theories, greedy for the blood of others.
And when the soldiers finally begin to return from the war - of course, deceived, traumatized, angry - to an impoverished, deserted country... I am very afraid that I will find something in common with them.