President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered the Russian government to launch a program to rebuild commercial warehouses damaged or destroyed by Ukraine in a month of targeted attacks.

Ukraine has carried ​out drone strikes against at ​least ⁠two dozen warehouses of Russia's top online retailer Wildberries since July 18, causing explosions and fires that have destroyed a large chunk of its storage capacity.

Putin, without naming the company, said a number of logistics sites needed rebuilding with state involvement, and told the government to work on this.

"It is essential to ensure that the restoration ⁠of ⁠damaged facilities is carried out at a qualitatively new technological level," he said in televised comments to a conference of ministers and business leaders on the economy.

Putin said the economy was growing modestly despite external pressure – a reference to Western sanctions – and despite Ukrainian attacks on industrial ⁠and infrastructure facilities.

"Of course, such attacks have not caused, and could not cause, critical consequences. However, they do inflict ​damage; this is obvious, and we fully understand and ​acknowledge it," he said.

Ukraine, whose own cities, ports and logistics hubs are also under attack, ⁠says ‌its ‌strategy is aimed at raising the ⁠costs to Russia of continuing ‌the war that Moscow launched in February 2022.

European Union foreign ​policy chief Kaja ⁠Kallas said this week that the EU ⁠would in the coming months impose its ⁠most far-reaching sanctions ​yet on Russia.