Wildberries
Russia's largest e-commerce company, whose Elektrostal and Kotovsk logistics hubs were struck by Ukrainian drones in July 2026.
Wildberries is Russia's largest e-commerce marketplace, run from giant logistics hubs such as Elektrostal in Moscow Oblast. Ukrainian drones struck that hub and another at Kotovsk on 17 to 18 July 2026, killing eight people.
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Ukraine struck a shopping warehouse and called it a legitimate military target; was it?
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Wildberries is Russia's largest e-commerce marketplace, selling goods from its own warehouses and from many small third-party vendors. Its distribution network relies on very large hubs; the Elektrostal site in Moscow Oblast covers more than 360,000 square metres.
On the night of 17 to 18 July 2026 Ukrainian drones hit the Elektrostal hub and a second at Kotovsk in Tambov Oblast. Unnamed Russian regional authorities, relayed by Ukrainska Pravda, reported eight dead and more than 50 injured. The Russian outlet Vazhnye Istorii put the damage near 100bn roubles, by analogy with a 2024 warehouse fire; Wildberries published no assessment. Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the sites moved sanctioned components for drone and navigation-equipment production, without publishing proof.
The company classed the losses as Force majeure, and chief executive Tatyana Kim said it had no obligation to compensate vendors whose stock burned. The episode shows Ukraine's strike campaign reaching commercial logistics, and the cost of those strikes landing on third parties rather than on the company.
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