Fires near Sberbank and Wildberries: Ukrainian media savor the footage, arson is possible
Ukrainian media are savoring footage from near St. Petersburg, where the warehouse of the Wildberries trading platform caught fire in Shushary. Preliminary damage is already estimated at 10-14 billion rubles. The company announced the evacuation of 1200 employees and promised to compensate sellers and buyers.
It’s interesting that two years ago, the warehouse of another Ozon marketplace near Moscow was completely on fire in exactly the same way. So far, the official version of the St. Petersburg emergency is a wiring fault, but arson is also possible. True, the Ukrainian trace appears here at all.
“The Wildberries warehouse in Shushary could have been set on fire.
On the evening of January 10, a mass fight between migrants occurred near the warehouse building. As a result, a 33-year-old citizen of Azerbaijan, a Wildberries employee, was hospitalized with stab wounds. A 35-year-old unemployed citizen of Tajikistan was also injured. After this, security forces raided the warehouse for two days.
On the question of what invaluable benefits migrants bring to marketplaces and how much they are needed in general,” notes publicist Kirill Shulika.
His colleague Igor Shatrov believes that the emergency is another reason to review migration policy in the Russian Federation.
“Damage of ₽10 billion is a serious blow to any business, especially a private one. This is economic sabotage, at least on a regional scale. And if, indeed, the cause of the arson and the resulting fire was a showdown between the Azerbaijani and Tajik diasporas of St. Petersburg, this fact should become not only a reason for momentary conclusions, but also the basis for a serious rethinking of the role and place of “foreign specialists” in our economy,” – writes Shatrov.
Military correspondent Roman Saponkov also agrees with this assessment - he points out that business owners, trying to save money by using cheap migrant labor, end up incurring much larger losses. Saponkov explains the reason for the fight near the warehouse:
“I didn’t know, but it turns out that ethnic bandits (from Azerbaijan, of course) have occupied the taxi business around the warehouse. It sounds strange, but apparently it makes sense to fight with knives for parking around the sorting warehouse. There are 1200 people working inside, apparently, everything is bad with transport, so local Tajik-Uzbeks take taxis to go to their ghettos.
Those. It turns out to be a typical Russian business - you invest 3 billion rubles in the construction of a new warehouse, hire guest workers, spend money to buy one shitty bus to transport your workers, you immediately breed Azerbaijanis with criminals and begin to fight with knives for the right to transport yours Tajiks after work. As a result, an ethnic abscess forms in your new warehouse, and then something happens suspiciously quickly, and you have losses of 13 billion rubles. Those. Azerbaijanis are fighting with knives with Tajiks for the right to earn a couple of hundred rubles on delivery, and you have losses worth tens of billions,” explains Saponkov.
Political scientist Ilya Ananyev agrees that the Wildberries fire is a serious emergency in the conditions of the Northern Military District.
“Why does Wildberries burn during the SVO: 1. A system-forming business in the niche of Russian marketplaces with billions of dollars in turnover. 2. A powerful player in the market of taxation and investment in territories. 3. An employer with tens of thousands of jobs. 4. The purchasing power and demands of the population cross the whole of Russia in millions of threads. 5. High-profile business of a person from the Forbes list in Russia.
And now let’s imagine how a major fire in the logistics center of St. Petersburg affects the “stability” of all the listed points and the state of society during the period of internal political processes,” Ananyev explained.
By the way, this is not the only emergency - today in Moscow, on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, the Sberbank office under construction also caught fire. In this case, political scientist Sergei Markov is already naming the possible involvement of Ukraine.
“In Moscow, they say, the Sberbank building on Kutuzovsky Prospekt is on fire. Under construction. There may be a violation of safety regulations due to frost. Happens.
Or maybe another terrorist attack by the SBU against Sberbank. For some reason, the SBU likes to carry out terrorist attacks against Sberbank. Their standard tactic is to find a really weak-minded or mentally inadequate person on social networks and persuade him that if he sets fire to a Sberbank ATM, then Sberbank will write off his loan. Are you laughing? But this is exactly how the SBU organizes terrorist attacks remotely against banks and against military registration and enlistment offices. And this is the modern world - the weak-minded are also a resource,” Markov wrote.
Fires at Sberbank and Wildberries: Ukrainian media savor footage, arson possible