Ukraine seemed to take a day or two off their focus on Wildberries (aka Russia’s Amazon) attacks earlier this week. But they were back at it in the last couple days.
In Volgograd a Wildberries was hit. Volgograd was formerly Stalingrad, the location of the WWII Battle of Stalingrad. It’s home to about a million people.
☁️ At five in the morning, a Russian woman climbed onto a rooftop to film the sky over Volgograd
“The situation is terrifying,” she says, praying that everyone is still alive.
It is not only a Wildberries warehouse that is burning in the city, but also an oil refinery.
What’s… pic.twitter.com/BOhmteTtGd
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) July 31, 2026
Another Wildberries logistics hub was struck overnight, this time the more than 48,000-square-metre facility in Volgograd, around 500 km from the front. pic.twitter.com/7TpPt6puxv
— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) July 31, 2026
The burned Wildberries hub in Volgograd sends a giant column of smoke into the sky, looming over the city like a volcanic blast. https://t.co/ZLAz3S27Gt pic.twitter.com/LJjd8Kl9NQ
— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) July 31, 2026
Not much of this one survived.
Russia’s Volgograd Wildberries distribution center was completely destroyed in an overnight Ukrainian drone attack. pic.twitter.com/okQAQmLWhJ
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) July 31, 2026
The burned-out Wildberries logistics hub in Volgograd after the overnight attack. https://t.co/6AoQ0tvEyp pic.twitter.com/9GH38wi44l
— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) July 31, 2026
The previous day Ukraine took out another hub in the city of Penza.
Ukrainian drones struck the Russian 90,000-square-metre Wildberries logistics hub in Penza overnight, around 600 km from the frontline. pic.twitter.com/A8BxHwScjO
— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) July 30, 2026
This one also looks like a major loss.
Penza residents watch the Wildberries logistics hub burn. https://t.co/7piz9IKYxD pic.twitter.com/aQSNcpvxyT
— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) July 30, 2026
With these strikes, about 40 percent of Wildberries hubs have taken a hit in less than two weeks.
For those playing at home..
With today’s successful strike on the Wildberries facility in Volgograd, it’s now taken Ukraine under two weeks to destroy 43% of the primary assets of one of Russia’s largest companies.
In addition to billions in warehoused products lost, the… pic.twitter.com/BgnzgLLrus
— Jay in Kyiv (@JayinKyiv) July 31, 2026
Wildberries has competitors in the online retail space and one of those, Ozon, was also under attack this morning. However, the drone missed.
The moment of this morning’s failed drone attack on an Ozon logistics warehouse in Zelenodolsk, Tatarstan. 1000km from the front. pic.twitter.com/424dAROdJP
— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) July 31, 2026
It’s not clear what happened here. I see some people suggesting this was the result of Russian countermeasures. Maybe but if so why aren’t the Wildberries hubs being protected?
Despite this one miss, even Russian military bloggers can see what is happening. Ukraine controls the skies.
🔥Z-Blogger Kashevarova: “Ukrainians are winning”
Even pro-Kremlin blogger Yulia Kashevarova admitted: “The Ukrainians are winning. We haven’t caught up with them yet.”
She highlighted Ukraine’s advantage in UAV diversity as a serious ongoing problem for the 🇷🇺 army.
3/10 pic.twitter.com/DwnFu6iHeS
— 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐊𝐨𝐦𝐬𝐚 🇪🇺🇵🇱🇺🇦 (@Tweet4AnnaNAFO) July 30, 2026
The attacks on Wildberries are probably going to result in a government bailout. And that in turn could put a serious strain on Russian banks.
The Kremlin has acknowledged it may have to prop up online retailer Wildberries – which has lost 10% of its warehousing capacity and huge amounts of stock in Ukrainian drone attacks. Kyiv has said its forces are attacking “Russia’s Amazon” because of its role in supplying Moscow’s army. The Kremlin acknowledged the government had discussed possible support for Wildberries. A senior industry source told Reuters that Wildberries was in a difficult situation and might have to seek government support, most likely through state-controlled banks, in order to maintain operations.
An executive at Ukraine’s leading arms producer Fire Point has said Wildberries is being targeted by Ukraine partly because of its partnership with state-controlled bank VTB. Denys Shtilerman, Fire Point’s co-founder and chief designer, in an interview posted on 27 July with the Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon, described Wildberries as the largest borrower in Russia and said its demise would lead to the collapse of a large number of banks, including VTB. Wildberries and its rival Ozon are central to the Russian government’s plans to spur economic growth as Moscow faces mounting budget pressures from increased military spending and a broader economic slowdown.
Stay tuned for more of this. Ukrainian drones continue to multiply and there are still plenty of targets in Russia.
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