A Night Assault on Wildberries' Logistics Hub
In the early hours of August 11, Ukrainian drones hit the Wildberries distribution complex in Novaya Usman, Voronezh Oblast. The company Fire Point confirmed that its long-range FP-1 drones were used in the attack. The facility covers approximately 156,000 square meters and has capacity for more than 90 million units, with up to 1.8 million items flowing through it each day. According to Militarnyi, the affected complex spans 152,900 square meters and was fully opened in late 2025.
Wildberries confirmed that staff at its logistics facilities in the Voronezh region were evacuated in line with safety requirements. Voronezh Governor Alexander Gusev issued an alert around 1 a.m. and acknowledged fires at two warehouses: one was contained over an area of 16,000 square meters, while the other required firefighting efforts across 20,000 square meters. He reported one person dead and two injured. Debris damaged three trucks and one passenger car.
Assessing the Aftermath
Analysts from the Kiberboroshno channel described this as the 14th Wildberries warehouse to be burned. Their data on 25 key facilities shows that 67.0% of combined floor space has been destroyed, 19.5% damaged, and only 13.4% left intact.
“In less than a month, Wildberries' logistics backbone has lost two-thirds of its capacity,” the analysts said.
That same night, Ukrainian drones also struck the Orsk oil refinery, a refinery in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in Khabarovsk Krai, and a thermal power station in Angarsk, Irkutsk Oblast. Earlier, a Wildberries hub in Yekaterinburg, located roughly 1,700 kilometers from Ukraine, had also been targeted.
These raids show how Ukraine is increasingly using drones to hit critical logistics and industrial infrastructure inside Russia. Wildberries is one of Russia's largest online retailers, so the loss of warehouse capacity on this scale could seriously disrupt goods deliveries. The episode also highlights how even vast commercial facilities are exposed to the wider consequences of the war.
The recent drone attack on the Wildberries logistics center near Voronezh is part of a broader trend of escalating strikes against critical infrastructure in Russia. Notably, just weeks before this incident, a logistics hub in Yekaterinburg was similarly targeted by drones, covering a distance of over 1,700 kilometers. For more details on this earlier event and its implications, visit this report on the Yekaterinburg strike.