Ukrainian drones attacked warehouses of the Russian online retailer Wildberries in at least three regions overnight on Friday, July 24 — in the Leningrad region, Tver, and annexed Simferopol in Crimea, independent media reported, citing monitoring channels and eyewitnesses.
Leningrad region governor Alexander Drozdenko confirmed a fire at a Wildberries warehouse in the village of Novosaratovka, Vsevolozhsky district. Three people were injured and are in moderate condition, he said. According to Drozdenko, a drone also struck a warehouse of the Severnaya poultry farm in the settlement of Sinyavino, Kirovsky district, causing structural collapse but no casualties.
Telegram channel Astra reported that at least three buildings were burning in Utkina Zavod, St. Petersburg: in addition to the Wildberries warehouse, a fire broke out at a warehouse of the Petrovich construction supply company and another building. Wildberries' press service said it had temporarily suspended operations at logistics complexes in Shushary and Utkina Zavod, promising to announce when they would resume.
In annexed Simferopol, a Wildberries sorting center also caught fire, according to the monitoring channel Exilenova+. The company said the center was evacuated in line with safety requirements.
Exilenova+ also reported an attack on a Wildberries warehouse in Tver, where a fire broke out. Local authorities had not officially confirmed the attack by the time of publication. Independent sources also did not confirm a strike on an electrical substation in Sudak, which the Telegram channel Krymsky Veter had reported, claiming that power and water were cut off in the city afterward.
St. Petersburg governor Alexander Beglov, authorities in Tver and the Tver region, and Moscow-appointed Simferopol mayor Mikhail Afanasyev had not commented on the attacks by the time of publication. About 50 flights were delayed at Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg due to the drone attack.
According to Kommersant, Ukrainian drones have hit about 10% of Wildberries' total logistics infrastructure over the past week — 552,000 square meters of warehouse space. Earlier strikes hit complexes in Elektrostal near Moscow (250,000 sq m), Kotovsk in the Tambov region (108,000 sq m), Krasnodar (100,000 sq m), and Nevinnomyssk in Stavropol Krai (94,000 sq m). The July 18 attack in Kotovsk and Elektrostal, according to the company, killed eight people and wounded about 50.