Ukrainian Drones Attack Wildberries Warehouse in Yekaterinburg

Ukrainian drones launched a mass attack in the Sverdlovsk region, reported the regional head Denis Pasler.

"The drones struck residential buildings and a logistics center. There are no casualties. Information about injuries is being clarified. Fires have been recorded," Pasler wrote on his Telegram channel.

Artyom Zhoga, the presidential envoy to the Ural Federal District, has confirmed that Yekaterinburg was targeted in the attack. According to data from the Ukrainian Exilenova+ monitoring channel, the target of the attack was the distribution center of the Wildberries marketplace, but only one drone managed to reach the warehouse. It fell several meters away from the object.

Wildberries reported that the crew was evacuated during the drone attack. The logistics complex was not damaged.

Previously, Ukrainian drones had attempted to attack the Yekaterinburg marketplace warehouse in July. At that time, several cars burned in a nearby parking lot, but the object itself was not harmed. During today’s attack, one of the drones collided with the "Uties" residential complex located in the Chkalov area of Yekaterinburg, Astra reported. Several apartments were damaged in the building—windows were broken and walls collapsed, residents told the "Ostorozhno, Novosti" publication. They stated that people were not allowed into their homes and were being accommodated in the basement of a nearby school.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) began targeting Wildberries warehouses on July 18 and, over a month and a half, have struck 23 distribution centers across 16 regions. Earlier, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense announced that they had completely incapacitated seven of the ten largest logistics centers of the marketplace, including the largest one located in Koledino near Moscow (250,000 square meters). Analysts from Data Insight estimated that the direct losses from infrastructure destruction of Wildberries alone amounted to 147-223 billion rubles by mid-August. Concurrently, marketplace sellers lost goods valued at 445-507 billion rubles. Therefore, the total damage may reach up to 800 billion rubles.