In Voronezh, 70,000 sq. m of Wildberries warehouse burned out after drone attack

About 70,000 square meters of warehouse space burned out at a logistics center for the Russian marketplace Wildberries in the Voronezh region as a result of a drone attack.

This was reported by Russian­ service Radio Liberty.

It’s the Wildberries logistics facility in the village of Nechaevka near Voronezh, which came under attack on the night of July 23. At the time, Russian authorities reported damage to the roof of a marketplace warehouse and to the facade of another storage facility without naming the company. Radio Liberty later identified the damaged complex as a Wildberries warehouse using satellite images.

An updated assessment shows the aftermath is significantly larger than the damage initially reported: about 70,000 sq. m of the facility burned out. The total area of the Wildberries logistics center in Voronezh after expansion stood at around 156,000 sq. m, which means a sizable part of the complex may have been affected.

After the July attack Wildberries temporarily halted operations at the Voronezh warehouse and stopped accepting new shipments. The company also waived a number of charges and fines for sellers that arose because the facility couldn’t be used normally.

In July, Wildberries warehouses in several Russian regions repeatedly came under drone attacks. According to Kommersant calculations cited by Reuters, damage had already affected about 552,000 sq. m of the company’s logistics space by July 23 — approximately 10% of its storage capacity. About 444,000 sq. m was estimated to be unusable at that point.

Russian authorities blame Ukraine for the attacks. Ukrainian units have previously confirmed striking individual Wildberries warehouses, saying they are used in support of the Russian military. In particular, on July 18, Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces reported a strike on a large company warehouse in the Moscow region.