Overview
- Since mid-July, long‑range Ukrainian drone strikes have hit roughly a dozen Wildberries logistics sites, causing large fires, at least eight deaths in early attacks and many injuries.
- The attacks have spread across Russia and annexed Crimea, striking near Saint‑Pétersbourg, Simferopol, Krasnodar, Ekaterinbourg and most recently a Volgograd warehouse in the night of July 30–31.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Wildberries of storing and shipping drone components and military equipment, an allegation denied by Moscow.
- Wildberries supports up to about 800,000 third‑party sellers and has announced two tranches of unspecified aid to merchants, first covering 88,000 accounts and then 97,000, while many sellers report heavy losses and distress.
- Analysts and Ukrainian defense contractors describe the campaign as deliberate economic targeting aimed at damaging Russia's logistical resilience and pressuring state‑linked finance ties such as those to VTB, raising legal and humanitarian concerns.