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The strike is the first on Ozon after weeks of drone ​attacks on its larger rival Wildberries.

Russian said on Wednesday that Ukrainian strikes ​on its grain and agricultural infrastructure were pushing up ‌global food prices and exacerbating grain shortages, something it said served the interests of some Western countries.

Ukrainian drones struck Russian targets including an oil refinery ​in the southern Krasnodar region overnight, ‌local authorities said, as Kyiv continues energy infrastructure attacks that have caused acute ​fuel shortages in parts of ​Russia.

Russia's ruling party on Sunday announced it would run an injured Ukraine war veteran and a television war correspondent, alongside ​the country's foreign minister and the mayor of Moscow, as ‌lead candidates in a parliamentary election due in September.

Uzbekistan's President Shavkat Mirziyoyev promised on Wednesday to continue economic reforms in ​the fast-growing Central Asian country, including establishing an independent ‌financial regulator.

Kazakhstan's ruling Amanat party said on Friday it is merging itself into a party created ​earlier this year by allies of President Kassym-Jomart ‌Tokayev ahead of parliamentary elections expected in August.

Ukrainian drones ​struck targets across several Russian regions overnight, including an oil pipeline pumping station, a refinery and ‌a fuel depot, Russian and Ukrainian authorities said on Sunday, in an escalating campaign of strikes against energy infrastructure often hundreds of miles inside Russia.

The first London initial public offering of Uzbekistan's National Investment Fund, which has raised ​more than $690 million this week, should trigger other listings by Uzbek ‌state and private firms, its chief executive said.

Russian ​Foreign Ministry ‌spokeswoman Maria ​Zakharova ​said at a ⁠regular ​breifing on ​Thursday that Ukrainian ​President ​Volodymyr Zelenskiy was ‌pursuing ⁠escalation of the conflict ​between ​the ⁠two ​countries.

From a brightly lit, open-plan office Azat Seyitmuhammedov runs an e-commerce startup, Wabrum, that he founded almost a decade ago.