500 ₽. Ozon Electronic Certificate of Assistance (500). Buy.”
OZON
Let’s come together to help the people of the Kursk Region
Hello, Thomas!
We have issued an Ozon electronic certificate in the amount of 500 rubles [slightly less than 5 euros, at current exchange rates] to help victims from the Kursk Region.
By buying this certificate, you help residents of the Kursk Region: we will send it to one of those who are now in difficult straits.
After paying, you will receive an email confirming that the certificate has been issued and sent to a victim.
Only the recipient will have access to the certificate’s activation code — no one else will be able to use it. If the certificate is not activated in 21 days, we will refund the money to your card.
Next month, post purchase, we will write about the results of the campaign to everyone who took part: we will tell you how many people were helped and how much money was sent.
Source: Personal(ized) email from Ozon, 25 August 2024. Translated by the Russian Reader. (UPDATED, 26 August 2024) The email also included the following visual inducements (all linked to Ozon’s website) to buy goods and use the company’s other paid services.
KYIV, Aug 26 (Reuters) – Russia launched about 200 missiles and drones at Ukraine on Monday, killing five people and striking energy facilities nationwide, Kyiv said, while neighbouring NATO member Poland reported a drone had probably entered its airspace.
Power cuts and water supply outages were reported in many areas, including parts of Kyiv, as officials said the attack – 2-1/2 years into Russia’s full-scale invasion – targeted power or other critical infrastructure in at least 10 regions.
Russia dramatically stepped up its strikes on the Ukrainian power grid in March in what Kyiv has said looked like a concerted effort to degrade the system ahead of next winter when people need electricity and heating most.
Monday’s missile and drone salvo was Russia’s most intense in weeks, coming as Ukraine is claiming new ground in a major cross-border incursion into Russia’s southern Kursk region while Russian forces steadily inch forward in Ukraine’s east, closing in on the transport hub of Pokrovsk.
“It was one of the biggest combined strikes. More than a hundred missiles of various types and about a hundred Shahed drones. And like most previous Russian strikes, this one is just as sneaky, targeting critical civilian infrastructure,” President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Telegram.
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