Ukrainian drone strikes on four Wildberries logistics centers over the past week have knocked out about 8% of the Russian online marketplace's total warehouse capacity, according to a Kommersant analysis based on open data. The newspaper calculated that roughly 10% of the company's logistics infrastructure was affected.
The targeted facilities include a 250,000-square-meter center in Elektrostal, Moscow region; a 108,000-square-meter facility in Kotovsk, Tambov region; a 100,000-square-meter center in Krasnodar; and a 94,000-square-meter warehouse in Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Krai. The total area of the struck sites is 552,000 square meters. Drones also attacked a warehouse in Voronezh region on the night of July 23, but losses there were not included in the tally.
The Kotovsk warehouse complex continues to operate, according to the newspaper. A Wildberries representative said all four facilities may require full restoration.
Experts interviewed by Kommersant estimate the value of the damaged property at 60 billion rubles, excluding the Voronezh region strike. Building equivalent warehouses from scratch would cost 35.5 billion rubles, but restoring the damaged ones will be faster, noted Alexander Perfilyev, head of the warehouse department at Invest7.
The sources emphasized that the affected facilities are key to Wildberries' operations. The Krasnodar logistics center was the main hub supplying southern Russia. The loss of the Moscow region warehouse, which handles import flows and mainline cargo, also creates problems. In this situation, experts believe Wildberries may shift from its own warehouse delivery to seller warehouse delivery, redistribute flows to remote warehouses in the Volga region, the Urals, and Siberia, and lease additional space.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has previously explained strikes on Wildberries warehouses by saying the logistics centers were used to supply the Russian army with drone components, navigation equipment, and gear.