Ukraine Drones Hit Wildberries Warehouses Near Moscow
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- Ukraine struck Wildberries warehouses near Moscow and in Kotovsk in the Tambov region — roughly 480 kilometers southeast of the capital — on Saturday with drone attacks, with smoke from the Moscow-region blaze visible from space.
- Wildberries, Russia's largest e-commerce platform, processed merchandise worth nearly 3% of Russia's GDP last year, making it a massive target in Ukraine's expanding drone campaign.
- The strikes jolted Russia's retail industry, forcing companies to rethink logistics and supply-chain strategies in response to the new vulnerability of large commercial hubs.
- The attacks stoked fears of higher inflation across Russia, compounding existing economic pressure on consumers already grappling with fuel-price spikes tied to the war.
Why it matters: Wildberries processed nearly 3% of Russia's GDP in merchandise last year, so strikes on its logistics hubs mark an escalation of Ukraine's drone campaign beyond military and energy targets into core civilian commerce — a shift that could accelerate inflation and force Russia's retail sector to absorb significant supply-chain disruption.
