Russia's Finance Ministry has prepared support measures for the merged Wildberries & Russ company (RVB) and entrepreneurs who lost goods in attacks by Ukrainian drones. A draft resolution has been submitted to the government, the ministry said on its website.

For RVB itself, the ministry proposes extending until July 28, 2027, the deadline for paying value-added tax (except on imported goods), corporate profit tax, insurance premiums and advance payments on them for July 2026 through June 2027. After the deferral, the company would be able to repay the debt in equal installments over one year.

Sellers — legal entities and individual entrepreneurs whose losses exceed 5% of annual revenue — would receive a 12-month deferral on VAT, profit tax, simplified taxation system taxes, and insurance premiums for August 2026 through July 2027. The accumulated debt could also be repaid in equal installments over a year after the deferral ends.

In addition, the ministry proposes suspending tax audits and checks on the accuracy of insurance premium calculations for both RVB and affected entrepreneurs until the end of 2026. Deadlines for sending demands for debt payment and issuing collection decisions would be extended by six months.

Economic Development Minister Maxim Reshetnikov said the deferral or installment plan would be granted automatically. RVB would compile a list of affected entrepreneurs and submit it monthly to the Federal Tax Service.

Ukraine has been attacking Wildberries' largest warehouses in various Russian regions since mid-June. Strikes were recorded in the Moscow, Penza, Samara, Volgograd, Vladimir, Leningrad, Tver and Tula regions, as well as in the Stavropol Krai, Udmurtia, Tatarstan and Krasnodar. Damage to the marketplace and sellers is already estimated in the hundreds of billions of rubles.

On August 19, Vladimir Putin, commenting on the strikes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said logistics and warehouse capacity needed to be restored — including with state participation — and ordered the government to adopt a recovery program.