Overview
- Another Wildberries distribution center was reported hit overnight on Thursday, July 30, extending a wave of long-range drone attacks that have struck at least 10 of the company’s facilities across Russia.
- Open-source tallies and regional reports put the damaged area at roughly 860,000 square meters, equal to about 10–15% of Wildberries’ warehousing capacity and destroying large amounts of third-party merchant stock.
- Kyiv and Ukrainian officials justify the strikes as aimed at warehouses that store or move dual-use goods and sanctioned drone components while the Kremlin and Wildberries call the attacks assaults on civilian commercial infrastructure.
- The attacks have produced civilian casualties, prompted Wildberries to treat drone and missile damage as force majeure, and driven roughly 300 borrowing companies to seek loan-payment relief from Sberbank.
- Manufacturers and analysts have attributed some strikes to FP-1 long-range drones, and observers warn the damage could force state intervention, strain banks and insurers, and disrupt Russia’s e-commerce supply chains and jobs.