Ukrainian drones have struck 20 facilities and logistics warehouses belonging to Wildberries, the Russian equivalent of Amazon, across Russia

Published on 18 August, updated on 22 August 2026

In Russia, e-commerce warehouses have become the new targets of Ukrainian drones

In less than a week, four logistics and storage centres belonging to Wildberries, the Russian equivalent of Amazon, have been targeted. These attacks, which have caused at least nine deaths, are disrupting supply chains and undermining the Kremlin’s narrative of victory…

After oil refineries, now commercial warehouses: Ukrainian drone attacks are diversifying their targets and bringing the war ever closer to the daily lives of Russians. For the second time in less than a week, they have caused massive fires at the warehouses of Wildberries, the hugely popular Russian e-commerce giant…. Wildberries, the Russian equivalent of Amazon, which in 2025 handled goods worth almost 3 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product, is not equipped to protect itself from drones…

The company, which had a turnover of $27.5 billion in 2023, merged in 2024 with Russ Group, a leading billboard advertising company founded in the 2000s by Rupert Murdoch, which was much smaller (with a turnover of one-tenth). The merger, however, took place on an equal footing and was personally approved by Vladimir Putin, as the Kremlin announced at the time.

Since the start of the air campaign planned by Kyiv on 18 July, Ukrainian drones have struck 20 Wildberries facilities and logistics warehouses across Russian territory.

Wildberries is the country’s largest e-commerce platform, not coincidentally dubbed ‘the Russian Amazon’: it has around 80 million monthly users and over a million sellers.

However, according to a statement by Ukrainian President Zelensky, Wildberries’ massive hubs do not merely handle civilian goods; they are used as logistical bases by the Russian army to distribute components for weapons, drones and hardware to military personnel.

Attacking what has become a mainstay of the Russian economy following sanctions against major international competitors also creates a domino effect on the banking sector and clearly demonstrates to the population the impact and consequences of the conflict initiated by the Kremlin