Ukraine burned a 188,000-square-meter warehouse near Moscow. The First Separate Center of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces (SBS) confirmed it struck the Wildberries logistics warehouse in Moscow Oblast, saying the facility was ablaze with black smoke visible for kilometers.
Wildberries is the largest Russian online retailer and e-commerce marketplace.
Ukraine has increasingly gone after the logistics and commercial infrastructure feeding Russia's war, not only refineries and arms plants.
"Wildberries with a crust from Moscow Oblast. A huge 188,000-square-meter Wildberries warehouse is burning brightly thanks to the work of the 1st Separate Center of the SBS, and the black smoke is visible for kilometers," the unit said, adding that "when karma works, fire extinguishers no longer help wild society."
The Russian OSINT channel Astra reported separately that military equipment and drone-tuning tools were sold through the marketplace, and that some estimates put the fire damage at up to 100 billion rubles (about $1.3 billion), with no official figure.
The claims about what the warehouse sold and the total damage are unverified, and come from Russian monitoring channels rather than from the Ukrainian unit that carried out the strike.
Russia has been hitting Ukraine's own logistics operator for years
Russia has struck Nova Poshta — Ukraine's largest private postal and logistics operator — repeatedly throughout the full-scale war.
The deadliest hit came on 21 October 2023, when a Russian missile struck a Nova Poshta terminal in Korotych, Kharkiv Oblast, killing six employees and wounding 17, and destroying hundreds of tons of parcels, per UA.News.
The pace picked up through mid-2026. Russian drones hit the Dnipro sorting center on 3-4 July, a Shahed struck the Zaporizhzhia sorting center on 2 July, and a missile partially destroyed one of the company's most modern terminals in Kyiv's Obolon district in a 5-6 July combined attack. Strikes also hit sorting terminals in Kryvyi Rih and a branch in Chernihiv in early July, and a Nova Poshta branch in Kramatorsk was struck on 16 July.
Strike hit Noginsk-Elektrostal area overnight
The night's strikes set fires at two sites in the Noginsk-Elektrostal agglomeration east of Moscow: the Wildberries logistics center in Elektrostal and an oil depot in Noginsk, Astra reports. Witnesses published video of fires and explosions on the morning of 18 July, and OSINT analysts identified the burning oil depot as the Noginsk facility.
The Noginsk oil depot presents itself as an independent fuel-market operator, used for storing, transshipping, loading, and shipping light petroleum products, including gasoline and diesel.
It holds 24 reservoirs with a total volume of 11,500 cubic meters and serves as an infrastructure partner for fuel traders and companies across the Moscow region, with large suppliers renting its tanks.
The published video showed heavy smoke near Moscow, visible up to 50 kilometers away by witness accounts.
Deep-strike campaign keeps reaching Moscow Oblast
The strikes extend a deep-strike campaign that has repeatedly reached the Russian capital region. Ukrainian drones have hit Moscow Oblast fuel and military-industrial sites through 2026, striking fuel terminals and technoparks in a massive 17 May barrage, and hitting the Kapotnya refinery 15 kilometers from the Kremlin repeatedly in June.
The oil depot fits the campaign's core logic. Ukraine's deep-strike campaign has knocked out 42% of Russia's refining and cost the industry $13.5 billion since August 2025, pushing fuel rationing into most Russian regions.
