Ukrainian drone strikes disable roughly 10% of Wildberries warehouses in Russia

Publication's estimates indicated that the attacks impacted warehouse complexes in Elektrostal, Kotovsk, Nevinnomyssk, and Krasnodar, spanning a total area of 552,000 square meters.

Industry experts surveyed by Kommersant estimated the value of the damaged or destroyed facilities at approximately 60 billion rubles, excluding the impact of the overnight strike on a warehouse complex in Voronezh Oblast on July 23.

According to expert estimates, approximately 444,000 square meters of warehouse space remain unusable following the attacks, representing roughly 8% of the company's total logistics footprint. Meanwhile, the facility in Kotovsk continues to operate, according to the report.

A real estate market source noted that constructing equivalent warehouse space from scratch, excluding equipment, would cost around 35.5 billion rubles. However, specialists believe that restoring the damaged facilities may prove easier and less expensive than building new structures.

Analysts also underscored that the strikes hit Wildberries' primary logistics arteries. In particular, the Krasnodar complex serves as the company's central hub for goods distribution across southern Russia.

According to industry sources, due to the damaged infrastructure, Wildberries may alter its delivery schemes by relying more heavily on seller-owned warehouses, reallocating logistics flows among other regions, and leasing additional commercial warehouse spaces.

Attack on logistics centers

Overnight on July 23, drones attacked Voronezh, where monitoring channels identified a Wildberries logistics hub as one of the primary targets.

On the night of July 22, Ukrainian drones struck two large Wildberries logistics centers in southern Russia: a 100,000-square-meter facility in Krasnodar and a 90,000-square-meter facility in Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Krai.

That same night, explosions were reported in Armavir, Krasnodar Krai, where an attack targeted an oil depot, triggering a fire. Wildberries owner Tatyana Kim confirmed the attacks on both logistics centers, stating that emergency evacuations were conducted at both facilities.

Smoke and combustion products from the Krasnodar warehouse fire could potentially reach the Black Sea coast, specifically near Cape Idokopas near Gelendzhik, the site of a residence associated with Vladimir Putin.

On July 20, drones executed a mass strike on Moscow Oblast, where a fire engulfed another Wildberries warehouse in Podolsk and the Yuzhnyye Vorota industrial park in Domodedovo.