Overview
- Wildberries logistics centres were struck again on Friday, July 24, with warehouses near Saint‑Petersburg and in Simferopol damaged by drone attacks that produced large fires and forced staff evacuations.
- The strikes follow two earlier waves since July 18 that hit Wildberries hubs near Moscow, Tambov, Krasnodar and Nevinnomyssk and left eight night‑shift workers dead in the first attack.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Wildberries of handling sanctioned components for drones and navigation systems, a claim rejected by the Kremlin and not independently verified in immediate reporting.
- Russian officials said 59 drones were shot down over Saint‑Petersburg and 571 across the country that night, and the Investigative Committee opened a probe treating the strikes as attacks on civilian infrastructure.
- The attacks forced temporary suspension of some Wildberries operations, disrupted around 50 Pulkovo airport departures and risk wider supply‑chain pain for small businesses that rely on the company’s logistics network.