Russia continues to hit Varus logistics: warehouse in Dnipro damaged

Russian troops attacked a Varus warehouse in Dnipro again on the evening of September 10. The facility had already suffered damage in the spring, and in recent months other warehouse facilities associated with the chain have regularly come under Russian strikes.

The Varus press service reported on the consequences of the new strike.

According to the company, employees were not injured in the attack. A large-scale fire broke out at the warehouse, but rescuers from the State Emergency Service managed to save part of the inventory.

Varus noted that the saved products are already being loaded and sent to the chain's supermarkets. The company did not report any store closures or significant supply disruptions.

This is not the first strike on Varus warehouse infrastructure this year. On May 5, a Russian attack damaged the chain's distribution center in Dnipro, killing people. On May 20, the Varus warehouse in the city was hit again – chain co-owner Ruslan Shostak then called it the second attack within a month.

In August, attacks became more frequent. On the night of August 20, a Russian strike damaged a warehouse of a logistics partner in Boryspil, where part of Varus's inventory was stored. And on the night of August 31, another chain warehouse in Kyiv region was damaged: the company reported significant product losses and possible delivery delays.

Shostak: there will be no shortage of goods due to warehouse destruction

Amid the series of attacks, Varus co-owner and president of Terwin Corporation Ruslan Shostak urged not to exaggerate the scale of destruction of warehouse infrastructure and not to create panic over a possible shortage of goods.

According to his estimate, since the start of the full-scale war, about 2.1 million square meters of Class A and B+ warehouses have been destroyed in Ukraine. Before the war, their volume was approximately 4.2 million square meters, and over the following years about 800 thousand square meters more were put into operation in Ukraine. Thus, of about 5 million square meters of such warehouse space, about 2.9 million square meters remain in operation.

The Kyiv region suffered the greatest losses: according to Shostak, about 1.5 million square meters of warehouse space have been destroyed there, including about 900 thousand square meters since the beginning of 2026.

Shostak called claims about the alleged destruction of 90% of Ukrainian warehouses false. According to him, even after the loss of a particular large facility, retailers are able to rebuild logistics chains in about two weeks, so he does not expect a systemic shortage of goods.

At the same time, he calls the main threat to business not the need to rebuild supply chains, but the lack of available mechanisms for insuring war risks and effective preferential lending for large companies.

In his opinion, the Ministry of Economy should offer business a tool to compensate or finance such losses. Without such a mechanism, constant recovery of enterprises after Russian attacks will become increasingly difficult.

Sources: Varus, Ruslan Shostak