Wildberries Attacks Continue

Ukrainian drone attacks on warehouses of Russia's ecommerce giant Wildberries continue:

• August 2 ~ a 180,000-square-meter warehouse in the Samara region burned to the ground.
• August 4 ~ a major fire broke out at a large warehouse in Krasny Bor, Leningrad region.
• August 5 ~ the largest Wildberries logistics center in Central Russia—spanning 300,000 square meters in Aleksin, Tula region—was attacked. There are suggestions that up to 30% of warehouse capacity may have been damaged, with potential losses for sellers reaching as high as R480 billion.

A source familiar with the Russian e-commerce market has concluded that Wildberries order volume has fallen by 40%.

There has been plenty of complaining from inside Russia about the Ukrainian attacks, and on August 5, Russia retaliated with a missile strike (28 ballistic missiles) that destroyed roughly 100,000 square meters of Ukrainian warehouse space around Kyiv, hitting Rozetka, Epicentr, Novus and Silpo supermarket facilities, as well as warehouses belonging to Liqui Moly (destroyed), Bosch (destroyed), and Puma, Intertop, and Toyota (damaged). 

But it is worth considering the context of what happened in Ukraine before it started its deep drone attacks on Russia's Wildberries. And so, below is a summary of just some of Russia’s 167,000 strikes on civilian infrastructure and critical facilities across Ukraine since Russia ramped up its unprovoked and illegal War on Ukraine, February 24, 2022.

• First days of the invasion (on and after Feb. 24, 2022): Fuel depots belonging to major gas station chains, including OKKO, KLO, and several smaller operators, were burned down, contributing to a fuel crisis that spring.
• Within the first month (March 2022): Russian bombing destroyed one of Ukraine's largest pharmaceutical warehouses near Kyiv, owned by Farmak, causing shortages of diabetes medication and disinfectants.
• Early March 2022: The largest shopping center in Chernihiv (an Epicentr hypermarket) was destroyed; the same period saw strikes on the Chernihiv Combined Heat and Power Plant, schools, two grocery supermarkets, several gas stations, and two hospitals. 
• March 3, 2022: Russian forces burned down Mariupol's largest Silpo and Epicentr supermarkets. 
• Second week of the invasion (~mid-March 2022): Warehouses storing Mary Kay cosmetics near Kyiv were destroyed. 
• Within the following month (~April 2022): Mariupol's largest shopping mall, Port City, was destroyed, as part of the broader devastation of the city. 
• June 27, 2022: Russian Kh-22 missiles struck the Amstor shopping mall in Kremenchuk, killing 22 people. 
• Sept. 11, 2022: Systematic strikes on energy infrastructure began, hitting Kharkiv CHP-5, the Zmiiv Thermal Power Plant, and multiple transmission lines — the start of an ongoing campaign against the power grid. 
• 2024–2025: Large-scale attacks targeted civilian logistics infrastructure, including food warehouses of the Fozzy and ATB supermarket chains.
• Aug. 5, 2026: The attack noted above.

Some summary data:

• More than 30 ATB stores were completely destroyed between 2022–26, with over 100 more damaged, looted, or left in occupied territory. 
• Epicentr has had 17 of its retail/warehouse sites attacked, 10 completely destroyed. 
• Approximately 70 strikes have hit Nova Poshta infrastructure, with somewhat fewer against Ukrposhta. 
• A June 2026 OHCHR (UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine) report found Russia carried out at least 423 attacks on electricity generation, transmission and distribution facilities, plus at least 74 strikes on centralized heating infrastructure, during the 2025-26 winter.
• An April 2026 OHCHR report noted at least 14 attacks damaged seaport infrastructure in Odesa region that month, and a March 2026 report describes intensified strikes on railway infrastructure across at least 14 regions.
• According to the KSE Institute (kse.ua), as of a February 2025 update, Ukraine's transport infrastructure had suffered $38.5 billion in losses, with over 26,000 kilometers of roads, railways, ports, and airports damaged, and energy sector losses reached $14.6 billion, including destruction of the Kakhovka and Dnipro hydroelectric plants and the Trypillia and Zmiiv thermal plants.