Ukrainian drones strike Wildberries logistics hub in Russias Yekaterinburg, sparking fire
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Ukrainian drones strike Wildberries logistics hub in Russias Yekaterinburg, sparking fire
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Ukrainian drones struck a Wildberries logistics hub in Yekaterinburg early Friday, sparking a fire at the facility in Russia’s Sverdlovsk Oblast, according to the company’s press service and local officials. The attack occurred more than 2,000 kilometers (1,243 miles) from the Ukrainian border, marking the latest in a series of long-range strikes on the retailer’s infrastructure.
Wildberries confirmed the fire at its logistics complex and said employees had been evacuated in advance, with deliveries temporarily redirected to other warehouses. Sverdlovsk Oblast Governor Denis Pasler issued a drone threat alert overnight and reported that eight drones were shot down over the region, with three crashing onto the warehouse roof. No casualties were reported, though Artem Zhoga, Russia’s presidential envoy to the Ural Federal District, said around 800 people were evacuated from the site. Authorities also imposed temporary flight restrictions at Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo Airport, which were lifted by morning.
The strike follows a pattern of near-nightly attacks on Wildberries facilities since mid-July. According to Russian outlet Agentstvo, more than 20 Wildberries warehouses have been targeted, including a major hub in the Tula region on Aug. 4 that forced the facility to suspend operations. Agentstvo reported that eight of the company’s 15 largest logistics hubs are now offline, with others in the Moscow, Vladimir, Krasnodar, and Samara regions still nonoperational after previous strikes.
Ukraine has framed the campaign as an effort to disrupt Russia’s consumer economy and raise the cost of the war for ordinary Russians. Kyiv accuses Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer, of supporting Moscow’s war machine. The company, often described as Russia’s equivalent of Amazon, has paid a second tranche of financial support to nearly 100,000 sellers whose goods were damaged in the strikes, according to its Telegram channel. Analyst Sergei Semko of Data Insight estimated that goods destroyed in attacks on Wildberries warehouses in the Moscow and Tambov regions alone were worth up to $2.9 billion.
Footage published by Ukrainian monitoring channels purportedly showed the moment of impact and smoke rising from the Yekaterinburg facility, though the reports have not been independently verified. On Aug. 4, Robert Brovdi, commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, claimed Ukrainian drones had attacked 15 Wildberries logistics facilities over 18 days. The Yekaterinburg strike is the second on the same site in two weeks, according to Slovak outlet Aktuality.sk, which reported that three drones hit the 150,000-square-meter warehouse roof.
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