Ukraine knocks out 8 of Wildberries' 10 largest warehouses
Photo: Ukraine has disabled 8 of Wildberries' 10 largest warehouses (Getty Images)
Ukrainian strikes since July have knocked out 8 of Wildberries’ 10 largest warehouses in Russia, reports Agentstvo.
On the night of August 26, the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched a new strike on Wildberries warehouses. This time, the company’s logistics center in the Tambov region was attacked, and it stopped operating after the strike.
Judging by a statement from local authorities, the facility burned down completely or almost completely. This is the eighth of the marketplace’s 10 largest logistics centers to be knocked out by strikes since mid-July.
Before that, Ukrainian strikes had knocked out 7 of Wildberries’ largest warehouses:
- In Elektrostal and Koledino near Moscow (both had an area of 250,000 sq. m) — the first burned down completely after the July 18 attack, while the second stopped operating after strikes and a fire on August 16;
- In Novaya Usman in the Voronezh region (156,000 sq. m) — has not been operating since the August 11 attack;
- In Krasny Bor in the Leningrad region (154,000 sq. m) — stopped operating after the August 4 attack;
- In Aleksin in the Tula region (150,000 sq. m) — has not been operating since the August 5 attack;
- In the settlement of Novosemeykino in the Samara region (128,000 sq. m) — has not been operating since the August 2 attack;
- In Sobinsky district of the Vladimir region (119,000 sq. m) — has not been operating since the August 3 attack.
Warehouses in Yekaterinburg (157,000 sq. m) and Tatarstan (150,000 sq. m) were also attacked but continue to operate.
Out of the 1.6 million sq. m of space at Wildberries’ 10 largest warehouses, more than 1.3 million sq. m (over 81%) has already been knocked out of operation.
Latest strikes on Wildberries
On the night of August 26, Ukrainian drones struck a Wildberries logistics hub in Kotovsk, Tambov region, Russia, for the second time. A fire broke out at the facility.
The warehouse in Kotovsk had already been hit on July 18 — seven employees were killed in the resulting fire, and the facility itself temporarily suspended operations.
Following the Coalition of the Willing meeting, world leaders concluded that Ukraine’s “long-range sanctions” against Wildberries could force Russia to sit down at the negotiating table.
