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Ukraine’s targeted drone campaign has dismantled 81% of Wildberries' major warehouse capacity across Russia, destroying billions in inventory and knocking eight of its ten largest logistics hubs offline. By targeting a primary distribution network for dual-use military supplies, Ukraine is driving severe economic strain, merchant insolvencies, and bank devaluations. Discover how these deep strikes are exposing Russian domestic vulnerabilities and triggering Kremlin emergency measures.
⏱️ CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Ukrainian Drones Destroy 81 Percent of Wildberries Capacity
01:07 - 100,000 Square Meter Tambov Warehouse Destroyed by Fire
03:12 - Breakdown of Wildberries Warehouse Destruction Across Russia
04:20 - 32 Confirmed Ukrainian Drone Hits Across 19 Russian Regions
05:56 - Wildberries Sellers Face 12 Billion Dollars in Total Losses
08:03 - Wildberries Denies Compensation to Sellers for Drone Damages
10:09 - Wildberries Exposed as Key Grey-Market Military Supply Chain
12:53 - Russian VTB Bank Shares Crash 45 Percent Due to E-Commerce Losses
15:29 - Vladimir Putin Signs Decree to Seize Unprotected Infrastructure
17:22 - Will Ukraine Target Remaining 19 Percent Wildberries Capacity?
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Ukraine’s targeted drone campaign has dismantled 81% of Wildberries' major warehouse capacity across Russia, destroying billions in inventory and knocking eight of its ten largest logistics hubs offline. By targeting a primary distribution network for dual-use military supplies, Ukraine is driving severe economic strain, merchant insolvencies, and bank devaluations. Discover how these deep strikes are exposing Russian domestic vulnerabilities and triggering Kremlin emergency measures.
⏱️ CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Ukrainian Drones Destroy 81 Percent of Wildberries Capacity
01:07 - 100,000 Square Meter Tambov Warehouse Destroyed by Fire
03:12 - Breakdown of Wildberries Warehouse Destruction Across Russia
04:20 - 32 Confirmed Ukrainian Drone Hits Across 19 Russian Regions
05:56 - Wildberries Sellers Face 12 Billion Dollars in Total Losses
08:03 - Wildberries Denies Compensation to Sellers for Drone Damages
10:09 - Wildberries Exposed as Key Grey-Market Military Supply Chain
12:53 - Russian VTB Bank Shares Crash 45 Percent Due to E-Commerce Losses
15:29 - Vladimir Putin Signs Decree to Seize Unprotected Infrastructure
17:22 - Will Ukraine Target Remaining 19 Percent Wildberries Capacity?
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00:01Wildberry's CEO Tatiana Kim must be praying for it all to end.
00:06Russia's richest woman and the co-founder of Wildberry
00:09has spent the last month watching hopelessly
00:12as her company is systematically dismantled by Ukrainian drone strikes.
00:16She can do nothing about it.
00:18Putin seems unwilling to do anything about it and the strikes just keep on happening.
00:22This is what you get for supporting Russia's war machine, Kim.
00:25Ukraine exposed the connection, then it destroyed Wildberry's.
00:3081% of Wildberry's has been wiped off the map and Ukraine is coming for the last 19%.
00:37On August 26th, the news broke that Ukrainian drones had struck yet another Wildberry's facility.
00:43With that strike, Ukraine has burned 81% of the company's combined warehouse space to the ground,
00:50leaving Wildberry's a shell of its former self.
00:52A withered plant gasping for water, literally.
00:56Ukraine has now hit 8 of the 10 largest warehouses that Wildberry's operates,
01:01with its latest strike being among the most damaging of them all.
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01:17Overnight, Ukraine targeted the Wildberry's logistics center in Russia's Tambov,
01:21causing a fire so massive the center has been forced to suspend all operations.
01:26This is becoming a familiar story for Kim.
01:29Several other Wildberry's warehouses have also suspended operations,
01:33because it's not exactly easy to ship products to customers when those products have been turned into ash.
01:38The Telegram channel, Argensvo, shares several videos of the aftermath of Ukraine's Tambov strike,
01:45all showing the same thing, a raging inferno and plumes of smoke rising into the sky.
01:50It's also clear that the fire has raged for hours, as the video shifts from nighttime to morning conditions,
01:57showing that Tambov's emergency services are struggling to get the blaze under control.
02:01Every hour that the fire burns is more money going up in flames.
02:06Reports are filtering in from Russian authorities, and even they highlight just how much damage Ukraine did.
02:12The Tambov regional governor, Yevgeny Pervishov, claimed that Russia shot down 16 drones over Tambov on the night of August
02:1826th,
02:19which is the usual setup for the old drone debris excuse.
02:22Pervishov couldn't hide the scale of the damage, though.
02:25He says that the fire Ukraine caused has spread over 100,000 square meters of the Tambov complex.
02:30The entire facility measures 108,000 square meters.
02:35We can safely say that pretty much that all of Wildberry's Tambov operation has gone up in smoke.
02:40There's a certain poetry attached to this particular strike for Ukraine.
02:45As AP News reveals, this Tambov depot had been among the first that Ukraine hit back on July 18th,
02:51ahead of the country kicking off its full-blown Wildberry's campaign.
02:54Ukraine has just gone full circle with a double tap that has taken the Tambov facility out for good.
03:00We'd say that Ukraine has ended where it started, but we know that isn't true.
03:04After all, there's still 19% of Wildberry's warehouse space to go.
03:08It's practically a certainty that what little the company has left is going to be visited by Ukrainian drones in
03:14the very near future.
03:15However, the second Tambov strike is just the latest in a series.
03:18This is the breakdown of the damage Ukraine's drones have done so far.
03:22In Kolodino and Elektrostal, which are both in the Moscow region,
03:27warehouse space amounting to 250,000 square meters has been destroyed.
03:31United24 Media says that the Elektrostal warehouse has been completely wiped off the map.
03:36A little bit of the Kolodino facility may have survived, but the logistics hub has been forced to cease operations
03:41since August 16th,
03:43in the wake of the fire that Ukraine caused.
03:45In the Voronezh region, the 156,000 square meter facility Wildberry's built has been out of commission since August 11th.
03:52A facility of a similar size, the 154,000 square meter warehouse in Krasnybor, which is in the Leningrad region,
04:00has also suspended all operations following a strike on August 4th.
04:04And on and on the story goes.
04:06In Russia's Tula, Samara and Vladimir regions,
04:09Wildberry's warehouses with a combined size of 397,000 square meters are offline.
04:15All victims of strikes during the first five days of August and showing no signs of recovery.
04:20And finally, a 157,000 square meter facility in Yekaterinburg
04:25and a 150,000 square meter warehouse in Tadastan have also been targeted.
04:30They both continue to operate.
04:32But for how long, given that Ukraine just showcased its ability to carry out repeat strikes, is anybody's guess.
04:38All told, United24 Media reports Ukraine has managed to shut down about 1.3 million square meters
04:44of the 1.6 million square meters of warehouse space that Wildberry operates in Russia.
04:50Ukraine's Center for Strategic Communications, or Spravdy,
04:53adds that Ukraine's drone forces have now carried out more than 30 strikes against warehouses
04:58operated by Wildberries since Ukraine began its campaign against Russia's online retailer.
05:03Specifically, Ukraine has recorded 32 confirmed hits on Wildberry's facilities across 19 Russian regions,
05:11some of which are veering into the Russian Far East, showcasing that there is nothing safe in Russia anymore.
05:16The most distant point struck so far is a facility in Permkry, which is around 1,400 kilometers away from
05:23the border that Ukraine shares with Russia.
05:25In a separate report published on August 23rd, Spravdy points out that Ukraine had disabled about 8% of Wildberry's
05:32warehouse capacity during the week prior,
05:34with a percentage bumping up to 10% when taking other logistical facilities into account.
05:39That would have been a slower week for Ukraine, perhaps explained by the country also starting to focus strikes against
05:44Ozone,
05:45which is Wildberry's biggest competitor during that week.
05:48But even then, 10% of capacity lost in a single week is a blow that few companies can recover
05:54from,
05:54and yet that 10% has ended up being just a small fraction of the damage that Ukraine has done
05:59to Wildberry's.
06:00Tatiana Kim's multi-billion dollar business is burning.
06:04Russia is being hit with economic body blows that it can ill afford at this point in its Ukraine invasion.
06:09Those body blows are coming from two directions, one of which impacts the Russian people, and the other, the Kremlin's
06:16war machine.
06:17When it comes to Russia's people, we need to explain how Wildberry's functions.
06:21The company is often called Russia's version of Amazon, with good reason.
06:25Wildberry's offers an online platform to vendors all over Russia who can sell their products to millions of people in
06:30the country.
06:31The warehouses that Ukraine is taking offline are filled with products that are primarily owned by these vendors, rather than
06:37Wildberry's itself.
06:38In other words, Wildberry's is a company that serves as the platform for an estimated 500,000 to 800,000
06:45sellers,
06:45as well as being used by a huge portion of the Russian population to get their hands on items they
06:50might not be able to find in stores.
06:52With that context, you see why the figures that we're about to share really matter.
06:57According to United24 Media, the financial damage done to Wildberry's as a business is enormous.
07:02By mid-August, Data Insight lead analyst Sergey Semko was estimating that the damage done to the company's logistics infrastructure
07:09had reached up to $2.66 billion,
07:13rising to over $3.3 billion when taking clean-up and reconstruction costs into account.
07:18All of this impacts sellers, of course.
07:21With the infrastructure down, Wildberry's can't send the products that those vendors sell to customers,
07:25so payments get refunded.
07:27Thousands upon thousands of sellers aren't getting their income from Wildberry's anymore.
07:31Of course, this assumes that there are products left to sell, and that's perhaps the bigger problem.
07:36The cost incurred by Wildberry's itself is nothing compared to the cost absorbed by the many vendors on the platform.
07:43According to United24 Media, Wildberry's sellers have likely lost between $5.31 and $8.35 billion of merchandise,
07:52and counting in the fires that Ukraine's drones have caused.
07:55That brings the total estimated losses across all aspects of the business to as high as $12 billion.
08:01And that was in mid-August. More facilities have burned, and more products have been lost since then.
08:07So not only do the Wildberry's vendors have to deal with the loss of the logistical network that formed the
08:12backbone of their businesses,
08:13they also can't get their products back, meaning they have to eat another loss on top.
08:18And to add a healthy heaping of salt to those sellers' wounds, Wildberry's isn't compensating many of them.
08:24In a move that makes it seem as though Kim had an inkling that something bad was coming Wildberry's way,
08:29the company updated its vendor partnership agreement in early July.
08:32Starting from July 7th, Wildberry's is no longer required to compensate its vendors for the loss of products under force
08:39majeure circumstances.
08:40In other words, if a drone happens to burn down a Wildberry's warehouse,
08:44the sellers who have their products in that warehouse are out of luck.
08:48Sellers are getting screwed over in other ways, too.
08:50On August 13th, Moscow Times reported that vendors are reporting delays in payments for items that they sold before August
08:563rd,
08:57even though Wildberry's own terms state that funds generated by sales will reach vendor bank accounts within five business days
09:04of a withdrawal request.
09:06Basically, Wildberry's isn't paying its sellers, which is as sure a sign as any that the company is in serious
09:11trouble.
09:12Vendors are getting hit from both sides. The products they've lost are gone for good. No compensation is coming.
09:17And the products they've successfully sold aren't earning them money because Wildberry's is holding onto the cash.
09:24What's the big solution to these problems? Temporary loan relief.
09:28On August 10th, Russia's central bank urged the country's leaders to support businesses that have been impacted by Ukraine's Wildberry's
09:35campaign by offering them loan relief.
09:37Those banks are already struggling with a deluge of refinancing requests from Wildberry's sellers,
09:43with Sparebank alone having fielded about 2,000 applications by the time of the Moscow Times report on the central
09:49bank's solution.
09:50So that's something, we guess. With loan relief, a vendor doesn't have to pay interest on a loan they can't
09:55repay anyway because their products have gone up in smoke.
09:58Of course, all of these problems impact the wider Russian economy by tanking small businesses and creating less money that
10:04can be spent and taxed to fund the Kremlin war machine.
10:07But that machine has a much bigger problem that has resulted from the Wildberry strikes.
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10:23The dirty little secret about Wildberry's is that it isn't some innocent consumer business that Ukraine has started targeting out
10:30of the blue.
10:31For all of Kim's claims of acts of terrorism, Wildberry's is a target because the last few years have seen
10:36it become a major cog in the Kremlin's war machine.
10:39Spravdy reveals how. It points out that what lies behind Wildberry's civilian facade is a CEO who is incredibly pro
10:46-Putin,
10:47going as far as to serve on the Russian President's Advisory Council for the Ministry of Industry and Trade and
10:52a business model that serves the so-called Special Military Operation.
10:56You see, beyond the clothes and gadgets that you would expect to see being sold on Russia's version of Amazon
11:01lies a much deeper form of business.
11:03It all started in 2024 when Wildberry's carried out a merger with Russia's outdoor advertising operator Russ.
11:10Putin publicly endorsed that merger, which linked Wildberry's to sanctioned oligarch Suleyman Kirimov.
11:16And what this merger also did was serve as what Spravdy calls a sort of protection payment,
11:21which brought Wildberry's under the sort of tight state control that allows Putin to generate revenue more readily for his
11:27Ukraine invasion.
11:28While this new level of state control helped to keep the money rolling in for the war,
11:32Wildberry's also supported the Russian war machine in more transparent ways.
11:36Before Ukraine started its strike campaign, you could head to Wildberry's and find drones and components for drones
11:42that were being bought for and by Russian soldiers on the front lines.
11:46The platform specialized in the types of dual-use products that can be claimed as being for civilian purposes,
11:51but are actually being sold to the military.
11:54As the new voice of Ukraine reports, beyond the drones themselves,
11:57you could find fiber-optic spools for FPV drones, motors and release mechanisms for those drones,
12:03and even small arms, body armor and other military equipment,
12:06often marked as being usable in the special military operation for sale.
12:10While Kim might try to claim she runs a civilian business, Wildberry's is anything but.
12:16Wildberry's has now removed the everything for the special military operation tag from the platform.
12:21Too little, too late, and too transparent a move for Ukraine to fall for it.
12:25Spravdy goes deeper, noting that Wildberry's essentially transformed itself into a key channel that Russian soldiers used
12:32to get their hands on grey market supplies that Russia isn't supposed to have.
12:36That everything for the special military operation tag we mentioned had more than 200,000 items listed underneath it before
12:43it was taken down.
12:44And it's not like Wildberry's is seeing the error of its ways.
12:47The tag may have gone, but the products remain.
12:49Or they would if they weren't burning along with 81% of Wildberry's warehouse space.
12:54There's also another piece to the Wildberries puzzle that worsens the impact that all of this is having on Russia's
12:59economy.
13:01Spravdy adds that the transformation of Wildberries from the civilian business it began as
13:05into the military-civilian venture that it became extends right down to the financial level.
13:10The integration with the Russian state that begins with the Russ merger was going to be extended before Ukraine began
13:16its campaign.
13:17Russia's state-owned VTB group, which Spravdy calls one of the pillars of Russia's invasion,
13:22due to its serving as a major source of financing for companies making weapons and equipment for Russia,
13:27was planning to buy some of the digital financial assets of Wildberries back in May.
13:31It also intended to purchase 5% of the shares in WB Bank.
13:36Yes, Wildberries operates its own bank.
13:38With these purchases, Wildberries sellers and buyers would gain direct access to VTB's financial products through the Wildberries platform.
13:45And Wildberries itself would have taken one step closer to being a state-run enterprise, making Kim her billions while
13:52allowing the Kremlin to use Wildberries however it saw fit to serve the invasion.
13:56Here's what it all boils down to.
13:58Wildberries had become a military logistics facility masquerading under the guise of a civilian company before Ukraine began its strikes.
14:05Now, Wildberries are being picked all over Russia.
14:09VTB isn't having a particularly great time now that the majority of Wildberries' warehouse space has been destroyed.
14:14In an August 27th report, UNN revealed that VTB shares have been plummeting, losing 45% of their value since
14:22the beginning of 2026.
14:23A share in VTB is now worth about 50 cents, which is an all-time low for the company.
14:28The state-run bank is still valued at $7.7 billion, but it's lost 88% of its market capitalization
14:35since its highest point in 2015, and the decline isn't going to stop.
14:39Wildberries is the reason why.
14:41As UNN explains, the decline in the share price is being driven by VTB's obligations related to Russia's largest marketplaces.
14:48At the end of May, the bank announced a strategic partnership with Wildberries, after which drone strikes destroyed about one
14:55-third of the company's warehouse capacity, while direct losses reached several hundred billion rubles.
15:01VTB also has strong links to Ozone, by the way.
15:04So it's exposed on two fronts as Ukraine continues its campaign against Russia's domestic logistics.
15:10We have three layers of economic damage here.
15:12Sellers and buyers are losing out, which ultimately means both have less money to pump back into the Russian economy.
15:18Wildberries' facilities being destroyed also means the logistical network that serves the Ukraine invasion is going down.
15:24Russia will need to find a way to replace that network, which is also going to cost money.
15:28And because the state has its tendrils in Wildberries via VTB, one of Russia's main financial institutions is now under
15:35threat.
15:36Putin is panicking, and he should be.
15:38This panic is likely what led him to making a desperate move on August 24th.
15:42AP News reported that Putin has signed a special decree that allows the state to temporarily seize control of whatever
15:49is deemed critical infrastructure if private owners fail to protect that infrastructure from Ukraine's drone attacks.
15:56Wildberries will easily fall under that category, and we can't help but think that the Kremlin is trying to take
16:01advantage of a terrible situation for the company.
16:03The Kremlin can now seize control of Wildberries, and it can do it under the guise of the company failing
16:08to protect itself, as though it would have had any way to stop Ukraine's drones without direct military support.
16:14There's a saying about lying down with dogs and getting fleas that comes to mind here, Kim.
16:18The man you've supported for so long has just signed a decree that allows him to snatch your business out
16:23from under you.
16:24Temporarily, of course.
16:26Because we all believe that.
16:27At best, what Putin has done is just place Wildberries under intense pressure to fix the issues that Ukraine's drones
16:34have caused, and to fix them fast.
16:36Billions of dollars have to be found from somewhere for repairs and the erection of whatever drone defenses Wildberries can
16:41muster for the rest of its warehouses.
16:43And it's not like Ukraine's drones will stop coming.
16:46And though this measure is supposedly mostly focused on oil refineries, which have been hit even harder by drones than
16:51Wildberries,
16:52it's wide-ranging enough for a militarily vital company like Wildberries to fall under its remit.
16:58Perhaps that will end up being the story of Wildberries.
17:00The multi-billion dollar business that was burned to the ground and taken over by the state.
17:05A war machine contributor exposed.
17:07Russia's richest woman displaced.
17:09And a desperate president who thinks that he could somehow fix the problem, even though he's overseeing a country that
17:15is plunging into economic decline.
17:17Ukraine will let the Kremlin come up with whatever desperate fixes it can muster.
17:21We'd hazard a guess that the next Wildberries strike is already being planned.
17:25It may have even happened by the time you watch this video.
17:28After all, Ukraine won't want to leave the job undone.
17:3181% down, 19% to go.
17:35We dug even deeper into why the Wildberries strikes matter, particularly in terms of putting pressure on Putin, when Ukraine
17:41began this campaign in late June.
17:42Watch that video for even more insight into why these strikes matter.
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