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Ukrainian drones struck multiple facilities linked to Wildberries, Russia's largest e-commerce company, in overnight attacks Monday targeting sites near Moscow, in the St. Petersburg region, and in the Tver region, according to local Russian officials and the company itself. The Moscow-region strike hit an industrial park in Chekhov, roughly 69 kilometers south of the Kremlin. The region's governor, Andrei Vorobyov, said at least five people were killed and 10 more were injured at the site, though he did not confirm the facility was operated by Wildberries. Ukrainian media subsequently identified the site as a Wildberries logistics center based on Yandex search engine listings. Wildberries confirmed separately that its facility in the St. Petersburg region was struck, and the governor of Tver reported additional damage there. Russia's defense ministry claimed its air defenses intercepted and destroyed 320 drones overnight — a figure that, like all battlefield claims from either side, cannot be independently verified.
Kyiv has stated its targeting rationale publicly: Ukrainian officials assert that Wildberries warehouses are being used to store and distribute supplies for Russian military forces. Moscow denies this. Wildberries — sometimes called the "Russian Amazon" — operates more than 200 warehouses and logistics centers across the Russian Federation. Russian analytics firm Data Insight estimated merchandise losses from the ongoing campaign at roughly 170 billion rubles, or approximately $2.2 billion at current exchange rates. Those figures originate from a private Russian analytics firm, not from independent auditors, and should be treated accordingly. Russian officials in the Samara region — approximately 800 kilometers from Ukraine's front lines — separately confirmed on Tuesday that a Wildberries warehouse struck by Ukrainian drones on Sunday had been completely destroyed, including all goods stored inside.
Russia did not limit its overnight operations to defense. Ukrainian emergency services reported that Russian strikes killed an 89-year-old woman and injured two children in the southern port city of Mykolaiv. Separate strikes on a residential area in Sumy killed a woman and two girls aged five and ten, and injured four others. Both governments deny deliberately targeting civilians. The strategic picture is one of mutual escalation across civilian infrastructure — warehouses, substations, residential zones — with each side attributing only military rationale to its own strikes while condemning the other's.
The central question is not whether Wildberries warehouses have dual-use potential — Kyiv says they do, Moscow says they don't — but what this campaign actually achieves militarily. Disrupting a retail supply chain imposes economic pain on Russian households but does not directly degrade frontline combat power. Whether that tradeoff advances the war toward conclusion or simply prolongs mutual destruction is a question neither side's information apparatus will answer honestly.
Russia continues to advance and take territory in Donbass, where the battle really matters.
