Die Ukraine hat zwei Lagerhäuser von Wildberries, Russlands größtem Online-Händler, angegriffen und mitgeteilt, dass dort sanktionierte Drohnenkomponenten transportiert wurden. Der Schaden kann bis zu 15 % der Lagerkapazität des Unternehmens betragen, und seine Verträge wälzen die Verluste auf kleine Lieferanten ab
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/18/europe/eight-killed-in-ukrainian-drone-attacks-on-russian-warehouses
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On the night of July 17-18 Ukrainian drones hit two logistics hubs of Wildberries, the largest online retailer in Russia: the Elektrostal complex in Moscow Oblast, the company’s biggest at 360,000 square meters, and a distribution center in Kotovsk, Tambov Oblast, about 700 km from the front. An oil depot in Noginsk was struck the same night. Zelensky confirmed the strikes and gave the rationale: the hubs were moving sanctioned components for drone production and navigation equipment. Per Russian regional governors, eight people were killed, seven of them night-shift workers in Kotovsk, and around sixty were injured. That makes it the deadliest Ukrainian strike inside Russia in more than two years, and worth stating plainly.
The dual-use question is the interesting layer. Kyiv’s component claim can’t be independently verified, but Meduza, reporting from exile, points out the platform openly sells body armor, helmets, camouflage and fiber-optic cable for drones. Kotovsk is also the same town as the Tambov Gunpowder Plant, struck by Ukrainian drones back in June. Marketplaces move whatever sells, and in a war economy that includes the war.
Then there’s who pays. Preliminary damage estimates start at 50 billion rubles; IStories, comparing with a 2024 warehouse fire, puts the ceiling above 100 billion, about 1.2 billion dollars. Up to 15% of the company’s total warehouse space may be affected. And under Wildberries‘ standard contracts the burned goods are the sellers‘ problem, not the platform’s: thousands of small Russian vendors have no claim to compensation. The company’s CEO called it a terrible night for Russia and for the company. For the vendors it’s a terrible night with no insurance.
The wider shift: Ukraine’s deep-strike campaign has moved through refineries, defense plants and ports, and this week it reached the commercial logistics layer the war economy actually runs through. The same night, per Moscow’s mayor, 370+ drones flew toward Moscow Oblast alone.
For context on my end: I run a daily open-source monitor at [osnt.in](http://osnt.in) across 200+ Ukrainian and Russian-language sources. The vendor-contract detail is the kind of second-order effect that usually surfaces a week later, and it was visible within a day.
I don t quite understand why there has never been an analysis on the economical damage created by russiam bombings day aftet fay year after year
are we supposed to feel bad for the poor ruasian retailers now ?
Looks like a new challenge opened: 85% left to destroy
In the circumstances, they’re probably telling the truth. This is Russia, after all. Generally there’s not a gigantic point in hitting them if they’re not doing something military based. I mean when it comes to who ACTUALLY takes the hit we’re talking about small retailers and the domestic economy here, and in Russia the domestic economy is doing as well as the government says it’s doing.