{"id":23826,"date":"2026-08-03T06:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T06:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/23826\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T06:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T06:46:09","slug":"russias-online-retailer-wildberries-says-warehouse-on-fire-after-ukrainian-drone-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/23826\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s online retailer Wildberries\u00a0says warehouse on fire after Ukrainian drone attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/russia\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Russian <\/a>\u200be-commerce giant Wildberries said on Monday that a Ukrainian drone attack on \u200bone of \u200cits warehouses \u2060in the Vladimir region had caused \u200ca fire to break out and that \u2060staff had been evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>The company, whose warehouses have \u200bbeen systematically targeted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/ukraine\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> \u200cin recent weeks, said firefighters were working at the scene. It \u200csaid logistics operations had been rerouted to \u200bother facilities to ensure deliveries and shipments\u00a0continued as usual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a-read-more\">Read more<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20260731-wildberries-russia-s-amazon-targeted-by-ukraine\" target=\"_self\" class=\"a-read-more__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wildberries: &#8216;Russia&#8217;s Amazon&#8217; targeted by Ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alexander Avdeyev, the \u200bregional governor, said a \u200byoung man had received \u200ba non life-threatening head wound in the \u200battack and was being taken to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/hospital\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hospital<\/a>. A woman who lived nearby had also suffered what \u2060he described as minor injuries to one \u2060of \u200bher legs.<\/p>\n<p>Since mid-July, Ukraine has struck around 20 sites belonging to Wildberries across various parts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/russia\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Russia<\/a> and in annexed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/crimea\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Crimea<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The initial attacks on the night of July 17-18 left eight people dead and nearly 90 wounded at sites in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/moscow\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Moscow<\/a> and Tambov regions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Ukrainian drone strikes have targeted sites near Saint Petersburg, in Simferopol in Crimea, in Krasnodar and Volgograd, and in Samara.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The attacks on its warehouses are part of a campaign of long-range Ukrainian strikes targeting civilian infrastructure in Russia, which has been waging a large-scale offensive in Ukraine since February 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/kyiv\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kyiv<\/a> says the aim is to force the Kremlin to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>(FRANCE 24 with Reuters, AFP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian \u200be-commerce giant Wildberries said on Monday that a Ukrainian drone attack on \u200bone of \u200cits warehouses \u2060in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[237,7714,30,25,26],"class_list":["post-23826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-drones","tag-e-commerce","tag-europe","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}