Russian e-commerce will lose $4.8 billion to the drone campaign against its warehouses, analysts estimate
Analysts cut a whole year's growth forecast for Russian online retail by a fifth, and blamed the strikes alone.
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Russia’s number two online retailer reports drone attacks on logistics hubs in two regions
Ozon reported attacks on two logistics hubs while analysts placed smoke over a Rosneft refining complex in Ufa.
Shares in Russia’s second-largest bank hit record low as Wildberries-linked offering price holds steady
VTB sought access to Wildberries’ 80 million customers. After drone strikes hit the retailer’s warehouses, Moscow considered making the bank central to a support plan.
A warehouse built to hold up to 54 million items burned down in Tambov Oblast, Russia
It opened only last year as the central logistics point of Russia's largest online retailer and has now been hit by drones twice.
Russia turns failed drone defenses into grounds for state control of company assets
Russia can now take control of a company’s property and shares if it fails to protect key infrastructure from drones—even when the controller is foreign.
Why did Ozon fall as much as 29% while Russia’s market lost 2.9%?
After five weeks of strikes on privately held Wildberries, attacks on listed Ozon gave investors a direct price for warehouse risk.
Dagestan, Stavropol Krai, Adygea: Ukraine’s drones worked straight down the delivery map of Russia’s No. 2 online store
Three storage hubs went up before dawn, and the biggest of them supplies customers across the entire North Caucasus.
Russia claims it downed a record 1,671 drones—as fires burn across Moscow Oblast
A drone struck another Wildberries warehouse, but this one caused no major fire as others had in previous strikes.
Ukraine has knocked out seven of Russia’s 10 biggest warehouses as its air defenses fall short, ISW says
The drones keep reaching depots that help supply Moscow's military, faster than Russia can shield them. The latest strike occurred yesterday.
“One of the most massive” Ukrainian drone attacks hits Moscow Oblast: two major warehouses ablaze
Footage showed fires at Koledino and Severnoye Domodedovo. Moscow’s mayor claimed 201 drones were intercepted.
First warehouses burned, now payment system is down: Ukraine launches dual campaign against Russia’s largest marketplace that reportedly moves drone parts
Ukrainian hackers disrupted the payment and customer-service systems of Russia's Wildberries marketplace, HUR says.
Ukrainian drones hit Wildberries warehouse in Tver for the third time in two weeks
Wall damaged again, no injuries reported, marketplace says goods intact
Is a fifth or well over half of Wildberries gone—or can both counts be right?
Estimates of how much of Wildberries Ukraine has burned run from a fifth of the network to well over half. Which is right depends on what you count. And some of the loudest claims don’t survive a check.
Ukraine strikes Gazprom’s Salavat refinery again as Russia’s fuel shortages return in 16 regions
The second hit in a month lands as Russian refining falls to its lowest since 2002.
Ukrainian drones set a newly opened Wildberries mega-hub ablaze near Voronezh
Ukrainian drones burn a giant Wildberries logistics complex near Voronezh, killing one and forcing mass staff evacuation
Ukraine’s strikes gave Kazakhstan leverage over Russian retail giant Wildberries
Wildberries is building 260,000 square meters of warehouses while Kazakhstan tells shoppers to buy local.
This Russian refinery makes the jet fuel for Moscow’s warplanes—and Ukraine keeps setting it on fire
Syzran supplies airfields and units of two Russian military districts, and it sits over 800 km from Ukraine. Also, Wildberries confirmed a fire at the Krasny Bor complex, the third of its Leningrad Oblast hubs struck in under two weeks.
Russia’s largest retailer is taking cameras away from its own workers month after eight of its warehouses burned
Russia's Wildberries now lets warehouse staff bring only button phones without cameras, after employees filmed Ukrainian drone strikes on its facilities and shared the footage.
A Russian warehouse built to hold 120 million items is burning east of Moscow region
Russia's largest online retailer confirmed the fire, evacuated staff, and reported no casualties, while the regional governor said emergency crews were working at the scene.
“They hit what was in parking lot”: Russian drone operator adapted strike on Ukraine’s largest online retailer’s warehouse in real time
A Russian jet-powered Shahed struck a Rozetka warehouse where 270 people were working on 1 August, killing employee Volodymyr Melnychenko and hospitalizing seven.